
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, 

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PENCLINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 



A COLLECTION OF 



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ALSO 



WRITINGS COPIED FROM WORDS SEEN CLAIRVOYANTLY 

UPON TEE WALL, GIVEN UPON VARIOUS 

TOPICS SUGGESTED BY THE IN 

VISIBLE S, THROUGH 



THE MEDIUM AM CLAIRVOYANT, 



MES. LATTKA A. SITNDEKLIR 



Scatter thy jewels before thee, and you will reap a harvest 
Which will glitter in the ages yet to come. 






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MAQUOKETA, IOWA : 

SWIGART & SAKGENT, PRINTERS. 
1876. 



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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, 

By MRS. LAURA A. SUNDERLIN, 

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, 



PREFACE. 



This work is a compilation of spiritual writ- 
ings, some of which were copied from writings 
seen clairvoyantly by myself upon the wall, and 
others are inspirational writings from the invisi- 
ble intelligences imparting to me inspiration up- 
on various topics at different periods. Also, 
ideas given through rny husband's, (Samue] Sun- 
derlin,) mediumistic gifts, some of them as far 
back as the year 1868, which thereafter has been 
compiled inspirationally through me for publi- 
cation in this work, or more elaborately ex- 
plained to suit the invisibles which are among 
the astronomical discoveries, the causes which 
moves the planets on their axis being explained 
through his mediumistic powers, that the liquid 
attracted in the interior of planets toward the 
centre of the planet produced a revolution of the 
liquid in the centre which caused the revolution 
of planets upon their axis, and to demonstrate it 
more conclusive they impressed me of the heat in- 
creasing toward the centre which would cause a rev- 
olution of the liquid around this increased heat 
in the centre, of the cooler particles of liquid 



v PREFACE. 

around the increased heat which would also pro- 
duce a revolution which would give the planet the 
same motion, they also gave through him the mo- 
tion of planets in their orbits being produced by 
attraction of the sun upon them or that the revo- 
lution of the earth upon its axis was what moved 
the moon around with it, which explanation they 
thereafter gave through a clairvoyant sight to me 
of the worlds and suns revolving upon their axis 
and moving the elements of space around with 
them, which gives the motion of all elements and 
bodies therein, around them in an orbit, and that 
their orbits were eliptical from electrical attrac- 
tion. They gave through his mediumship the cause 
of the rarity and density of atmosphere around 
planets and its effects of light and heat upon 
their surface, and many other ideas too numerous 
to mention in a short preface, but that some of 
his spiritual ideas were imparted through inspi- 
ration to me for publication or more elaborately 
explained thereby to suit the invisible intelli- 
gences imparting them is true as regards some of 
the theories of this work in its compilation for 
publication. The Authoress. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 

Omnipotence 9 

Where are They ? 12 

Voices of Inspiration , 13 

There is no Death 14 

A Death Scene 15 

History 17 

Marriage 21 

The Mother's Answer 22 

Never Give Up 23 

Epitaph 24 

Voices 25 

Death , 26 

"Bock Me to Sleep" 30 

Mysteries of Heaven's First View 32 

Come Up Higher 34 

The Wind 36 

Lessons on Life 38 

The Seasons 52 

Higher 54 

The Life Stream of Man and Woman 56 

Lessons on Life— Chapter II 58 

A Sermon 85 

A Message 91 

An Offering , 92 



vii CONTENTS. 

PAGE. 

Investigation 93 

Orbits of the Planets 95 

Planets on Their Axis 101 

Magnetic Healing . 116 

Progress 122 

Inspiration 129 

The founder of Liberty 130 

Onward 132 

Decay 133 

The Battle of Gettysburg 135 

Invisible 137 

Life's Mysteries 138 

Spiritual Worlds , 140 

Light and Heat. , 157 

Creation 166 

The New Year 169 

Spiritual Dispensations 170 

Celestial 188 

Contentment 190 

Jealousy. 192 

Gold 194 

Consistency 195 

Justice 196 

Supreme Intelligence 197 



INTRODUCTION 



This work is devoted to freedom of thought 
and the unbiased prejudices of the Nineteenth 
Century. That through its drifting sentiments 
some jewel borne may reach the hearts of earth, 
from the invisible shores, to enlighten the soul 
that may reach upward in the day-break hours 
of mental obscurity, that our invisible guardians 
may send a ray of light beyond the setting sun 
of life, from the beautiful hereafter which awaits 
us all. 

Then, as you may read these pages, read them 
with unbiased minds and let light fall where it 
may. We hope some longing soul may thereby 
become lightened of its burden, and the obscurity 
which clouds the mortal vision of man from the 
beautiful light of the unending day, become so 
radiated that they may see spiritually through 
the veil of materiality and catch a glimpse of 
that immortal light, so fitting us to receive with 
undazzled vision the beautiful hereafter, which is 
drifting us all toward the farther shore. 



PENOILIN.GS." FROM IMMORTALITY. 



Oir|r|ipotei|de. 

O Infinite! how beautiful, how glorious and sublime, 
Unchanging in Thy perfectness through all eternal time ; 
Thy laws unfolding constantly, the supreme of Thy power, 
From human minds to bud and leaf expanding in the flower. 
Or to the worlds in starry space Thy laws are still the same, 
All we behold, or know, or feel, is written on Thy name ; 
For what can be, or e'er exist, but what Thou art the cause ? 
The Infinite that's everywhere in Thy unchanging laws. 
Thou art the moving spring that acts through all of nature's 

ways ; 
Creating and unfolding minds of every hue and phase, 
As well as bud and blossom, or sunshine, dew and rain 
All speak its own development engraven with Thy name. 
Thy body, the vast whole, that acts the universe entire ; 
Thy soul, the power that thrills throughout the whole as thrills 

the lyre. 
With deep toned music, master hands have touched the keys 

that ring, 
So Thou throughout the universe art thus the moving spring ; 
And we, a part of the Infinite do live and move in Thee, 
As inspiration long ago had spoke of Deity; 
Unfolding and expanding toward diviner power, 

(A) 



10 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY, 

All elements are perfecting to higher life each hour. 

If then we form a part of God, to die we never can, 

The smallest atom Infinite, which we can understand 

As changing not within us, is mind, which we can see, 

From youth to age sustaining its own identity. 

Then if mind is the Infinite that is unchanging not, 

The spark within the mortal from Deity we've got, 

Which is unchanging through all change of the material form, 

Then mind continues through all change, through ages yet 

unborn — 
For God, in the unchanging, through all that we can see, 
That moves material substance is immortality. 
Yet all is God eternal, as nothing wastes for naught, 
While the material substance in something new is wrought. 
Creation moves unceasingly, just as the same begun, 
Is God's eternal movement, His laws unceasing run ; 
If it began in mind, then mind will ever be 
Continuing its developments through all eternity. 
The apple falls unto the earth, the same just now, to-day, 
As did attraction laws o f God in ages passed away. 
His will that moves the whole entire is the unchanging, where 
It acts the same when contact of elements are there ; 
Combining them in forms of life, with correspondence too, 
The elements combining these laws were acting through. 
And so in God we live and move to-day as doth all life, 
Uniting and progressing to perfectness from strife. 
The winding streams, the fragrant bowers, the starry worlds 

of light, 
Are moving onward, speaking forth of Deity more bright ; 
Yet some may worship at the shrine and call it Deity — 
Some central spot as in the church an altar fair to see. 
But give me God to worship in His own boundless form, 
The universe of worlds and suns, the sunshine, calm and storm; 
Revolving on through endless change, upward from sin and 

strife, 

Where He doth speak in perfectness of freedom to all life. 

If God is the development of all we know or see, 

And will the same continue through all eternity, 

Like one great mechanism of life, revolving wheels in wheels. 



OMNIPOTENCE. II 

Of solar systems, worlds and suns, of life that thinks and 

feels, 
Then surely awe-struck praise the same must thrill the human 

mind, 
When comprehending one vast whole of grandeur so sublime. 
Without beginning, without end, progressing on to where 
These elements attracted in lives and worlds so fair, 
Within the grand arcana, all moving onward still, 
To what we see and comprehend immensity doth fill. 
All praises seem to echo in one sublimer thought, 
Of grandeur toward Deity, than what we have been taught 
Of God who occupied a throne like ancient kings of days 
When governments of kings had ruled man's undeveloped 

ways. 
The inspiration of that hour illustrates to the mind 
A symbol in those days of God, the best that they could find. 
To comprehend of Deity that ruled the whole supreme, 
Most surely God upon a throne must sit as king or queen ; 
But mind as well as governments advances to this day, 
Eepublics live, and freedom born, and man has learned the way, 
That God exists omnipotently in freedom through the whole, 
And sees in God more higher still, divine, supreme control. 
Unending and eternal; O, God ! we know and see, 
Through ages still advancing, all praises are to Thee. 



12 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY, 



Wiethe Ws Vftey?. 

I'll speak of a land of fadeless bloom, 

Of a land that's immortal beyond the tomb, 

A land where the spirit doth enter in, 

Is a world more bright that is freed from sin. 

This land of bloom is the world where they 
Have gone from us that have passed away ; 
They will welcome us then, as we enter there, 
Its portals of beauty— its worlds so fair, 

Where sunshine and shadows may linger still, 
But its joys supreme our hearts will fill, 
Its joy increases when worlds where they 
Are waiting now shall have passed away. 

To lands beyond of fadeless light, 
Where no sin doth enter nor sorrow blight, 
Gather the gems of fadeless bloom 
To sparkle and shine beyond the tomb. 

The jewels worn in our crown will be 

The gems of thought we have gathered free, 

Along life's pathway, here and there, 

E're we entered the portals of worlds so fair. 

The truths we've gathered and garnered in 
The soul most pure that is freed from sin, 
Will rise in the light of the endless day, 
The highest, beyond where no shadows play. 



VOICES. 13 



Voided 



Peering through the misty veil of darkness 

A thousand shining lights are seen to-day, 

Like silvery radiance gleaming on the mountain, 

Casting its reflection in the valleys far away. 

What is this shining light arising like a vapor 

From some unknown and distant murmuring sea ? 

It is the gentle breath — the lighted taper — 

Which God has sent to light the way to thee. 

Sent from the far-off climes of light supernal, 

The loved ones which will beckon thee to bliss, 

The cord which binds us to the eternal, 

The silvery pathway from that world to this. 

Thus, sweetest voices of our loved ones long departed, 

Welcome us in all the rosy hours of day ; 

Bright guardian spirits which no mildew blighted, 

From earth life to the shores where'er they stray. 

What can be sweeter in all our life immortal, 

Than this, the knowledge which is given free, 

For us to learn and know that the eternal 

Has thus unbarred its golden gates to thee. 

Voices murmuring ever from out the distance, 

Like music wafted o'er some moonlit sea ; 

Telling sweeter tales of an existence, 

Life-long, eternal, welcoming you and me. 

We'll chant eternal praises to the giver, 

For love expressive gleams from every tongue ; 

The fond assurance given us forever, 

That earth-life is immortality just begun. 



14 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 



¥l\e^e i£nof)ektlv 

There is no death, 'tis but a change, 
From life to life more bright, 

And through eternity's vast range 
We soar to higher light. 

Eternal praise to Him who gave 

Existence first on earth, 
And then another higher still 

Into the second birth. 

Thus God in love and perfectness, 

Forever we do see, 
Bearing us onward, upward still, 

Through all eternity. 

For all the works which He hath made, 

Shall not be made in vain ; 
In wisdom He moves on and on, 

Then praise, O, praise His name ! 



A DEATH SCENE. 15 



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I saw a mother's anguish wild, 

When death had robbed her of her child, 
And bore its beauteous form away, 

And left her but the mouldering clay. 

She clasped the infant to her breast 

In wildest strains of tenderness, 
But not an answering sound would give 

Assurance that it still might live. 

She pressed warm kisses on its cheek, 
With grief beyond what tongue could speak 

But cold and white its lips were still, 
And yielded back an icy chill. 

Then all the bitterness and woe, 
That human heart could ever know, 

Seemed to stir the mother's soul 
And crush with grief beyond control. 

For whitherward its life had flown, 
Seemed all so dark in the unknown ; 

But while I gazed upon the scene, 
An angel come, with brow serene. 

It was her mother — long since dead — 
With radiant brow and noiseless tread; 

She clasped the infant to her breast, 
In sweetest robes she had it dressed. 



16 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

And looped away with tiny flowers 

She'd plucked from the immortal bowers, 

And fair and plump its shoulders peeped 
Above its robe, and looked so neat. 

Methought the mother's heart with joy, 
Would thrill, could she have seen her boy, 

With cherub forms that come to wait 
And bear it on to heavon's gate. 

But down they bended low in prayer, 
And could not know that they were there, 

For creeds and doctrines long had said, 
A fearful thing is with the dead. 

And closed the portals of their mind, 
Away from those of heaven's clime, 

To hear not songs of spirits' glee, 
Praise God for immortality. 

And know not guardians come and weep 
With us when sorrows seem so deep, 

From out immortal bowers of bliss, 
And on our foreheads print a kiss. 

And strive to raise our thoughts away, 
To brighter skies beyond the clay ; 

How much of gladness it would bring 
To man to rob death of its sting. 

To know that loved ones gone before, 
With loving arms our infant bore, 

The light that heaven gives to save, 
And give us "victory o'er the grave." 



HISTORY. 17 



ins¥Q§Y. 



\ 

History is the great study of human life. All 
turn instinctively to the pages that record the 
events and doings of men who have lived be- 
fore them. Its study is sought for by the scholar,, 
the sage, the philosopher. 

The traveler in vain strives for some relic 
among the cities of the dead, the ruins of ancient 
sepulchres, and colossal caverns, to unearth some 
trophy of the ages past, that will mark the events 
and doings of man, that have preceded him. 

Vespers to-day have sung sonorous music to 
its praise. Though the men who gave birth- 
place to the sciences and learnings of history 
have wandered — like the poet, Homer, in the 
streets of his native city — a poor, forlorn beg 
gar, unappreciated. Or, like Demosthenes, who 
spoke to the rolling waves of the ocean his first 
efforts of oratory unnoticed by the populace of 
his native land. Or Socrates, whose name is re- 
nowned in history to-day as the greatest scholar 
of his age, was derided and scorned by his own 

(B) ' 



18 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

people, who were unable to comprehend the 
vastness of his thoughts — thinking him a wild 
fanatic, a curse to the world from which they ex- 
cluded him by the fatal poison. 

Thus there is always more sacredness in the 
recounted deeds of the past, than the present mo- 
ments which gave them birth. 

Thus we go back to Aristotle, to Socrates for 
sciences, — to Demosthenes for oratory, — to Homer 
for poetry, — and to those Roman and Grecian 
Senators, who echoed the thoughts of the heroes 
and sages of the dead. 

America to-day is far outrivaling in giant un- 
derstanding upon the great topics of liberty and 
political strife, the thoughts of sages that sleep 
in the tombs of antiquity and whose thoughts 
are living in the pages of history. 

Coming ages will yet immortalize the name of 
American glories, her free institutions, her halls 
of learning. We live in a nobler age, far sur- 
passing the past. 

The voices of our American youths startle 
from their lethargy the pages of science, and un 
tomb from the dust of ages new sciences, new 
truths that are outstripping the pen of the past. 

Look to the means which have succeeded them. 
Our giant intellects have constructed the tele- 
graphic links, which span the depths of the 
ocean. And tht; New York broker quietly sitting 
in his office, can hold converse across the rolling 
waves of the Atlantic with his friend as quietly 



HISTORY. 19 

sitting in Europe. Or convey his thoughts to the 
waves of the Pacific sitting in his laboratory in 
London. 

It is almost omnipresence of thought that ex- 
cels the modern above the years of the past, 
when man worked with the problem of science 
untouched as it were. For then man used the 
means of sail ships — copying from the little nau- 
tilus that spreads its sails to the deep and rides 
triumphantly over the waves, as his best means 
of invention, for transporting news and commerce 
from one country to another, through the tedious 
journey of weeks. 

But modern science unfolds from the leaves 
which were left unturned by the ancients, steamers 
freighted with the commerce of the whole world, 
plowing o'er the ocean depths from continent to 
continent in the short period of days. 

Again, our magic Telescopes have spanned the 
heavens and unfolded her starry realms, as plan- 
etary systems, as worlds of beauty, peopled with 
living, breathing life of grandeur, kissed by the 
breezes of far off realms of purity, in the bound- 
less fields of infinite space. But what was it in 
the ages ol past history ? Man looked upon the 
starry realms above us as lighted candles which 
God had made expressly for our benefit; to lighten 
the earth with a vast canopy of beauty, to please 
the eye, and the sun, the great orb of light, to the 
solar systems of worlds, to revolve around us in- 
stead of the earth around the sun, that it was 



20 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

governed by the passions aud whims of men, who 
like Joshua commanded it to stand still and it 
obeyed. 

Such is the history of the past. And to-day 
modern science, far excelling in grandeur, can- 
not live in the hearts of men with that sacredness 
as the past history of those who have lived before 
them. 

Ages yet to come which shall succeed us in 
knowledge and science, when we are sleeping 
among the tombs and doings of men, that will be 
recorded upon the pages of history, then a sacred- 
ness will be thrown over the acts and doings of 
our lives, of the present age, in the pages of 
history. 

Then let us each work for a grand and nobler 
end, that we may leave footprints in the sands of 
time. Do and act in the great drama, which is 
yet to be sung by vespers when a higher language 
than our own shall have buried the identity of 
that which we speak to-day in oblivion, only to 
be recited by the scholar, the sage, among the 
dead languages of those who have lived before 
them. Then a sacred name will be ours, and his- 
tory will record our deeds with honors, and our 
names live to be perpetuated adown the columns 
of futurity. 



MARRIAGE. 21 



J^ailik^e. 



O, holy is the hour, when marriage sits supreme, 
To bind in unison two hearts sailing on life's stream; 
Exclusively all other lights from out the world are drawn, 
And centered in the hearts of each to radiate each form. 

The sunshine and the rainbow hue speak from each other's eyes, 
As if its silvery lustre was borrowed from the skies; 
There angels o'er the union of loving souls entwine, 
Breathing thoughts of purity from far-off angel climes. 

So loving hearts entwined on earth are still entwined above, 
Where soul and thoughts eternal doth speak of fadeless love; 
For God is love, and fadeless the principle must be, 
So if we love in perfectness 'tis all eternity. 

The unison of souls r jmain if love united here, 
Then the sacred bonds of marriage each one of truth revere, 
The flowers that gild its casket, the household flowers of love, 
Are jewels sparkling ever to decorate above. 

And still its radiant lustre will bright and brighter grow, 
If perjured not with truthlessness its light to overthrow ; 
Let each then bound in unison sacredly revere 
The marriage bond in perfectness, then its shadows disappear. 



22 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 



¥l|e ]\iotl\er'£ Si^wef. 

Child, dearest child ! I come back to earth, 
Back from the scenes of a glorious birth — 
Back from the land where the flowers ever bloom, 
For death has surmounted the grave and the tomb; 
Guardian Angel from God sent to thee, 
Child, dearest child, I am ever with thee. 

Through the years that are passed that have furrowed thy brow, 

I have watched o'er thee, the same then as now; 

{Striving to shield thee from sorrow and care. 

Though you knew not or thought not that I could be there. 

Such is a mother's love, constant and true, 

Loving to visit the earth life with you. 

Life with its cares and its toils soon are o'er, 

Then you will enter on this fairer shore; 

Where verdure eternal will bloom as the spring— 

Time of your life that no care will bring, 

Only the love of warm hearts and true, 

That wander the green fields celestial with you. 

Then praise Him who gave thee existence on earth, 
Where dark is the vision of this higher birth; 
For death soars above the grave and the tomb, 
In a land that's immortal where flowers ever bloom, 
And the cares of this life will recede one by one, 
While onward and upward in that life beyond. 



NEVER GIVE UP. 23 



j\fevei" Gjive lip. 

Never give up, though sorrow and care 
Are casting their shadows of gloom and despair ; 

For life's darkest morning oft ends in a day. 
Whose sunlight has swept all the shadows away. 

Never give up, but stem the rough tide 

Of life's ocean waves, and you'll safely out-ride 

The tempest tossed sea, with its foam- crested surge, 
For the wildest of storms will in calmness submerge. 

Never give up, for the angels of light 
Are pointing awpy to a haven more bright ; 

To beckon thee onward and upward to where 
Thy life will be freed from sorrow and care. 

Then let not adversity crush life's great aim, 
But steadily climb up the hillside of fame; 
And your banner will float in time yet to be, 

On Fame's highest monument, stainless and free. 
Never give up, was the motto so brave 

Of Heroes that sleep, our country to save ; 
That struggled through dangers as great in the past, 

And bore to man freedom triumphant at last. 



24 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

As great is the bondage that fetters the mind, 
And makes mankind slaves to creeds of a kind, 

Enchained us from ages to ages to come; 
Then never give up till freedom is won . 

Till each human being that lives on the earth 
May think, act, and reason, regardless of birth, 

For freedom of thought is the gift that doth bring 
The voices of loved ones on angelic wing. 

Never give up, for the lives of the past 
That taught inspiration, the multitude cast 

Its fetters to chain the truths which they give ; 
The same inspiration on earth now doth live. 

Then never give up, for surely you'll win, 
If this is your motto when once you begin; 

A cause that is noble — 'twill give you a name, 
If you never give up on the banner of fame. 



^pitkpli. 



I live in a world of beauty, 
My life 's like a silvery tree 
Whose leaves are unfolding in glory, 
And blossoms through all time to be. 



VOICES. 25 



Yoice^. 



I come, I come, with the silvery band, 
That echoes from out the silent land; 
My home in the silent hearthstone bright, 
Is now shut out in the darksome night; 
For my path away in the dark unknown, 
Is closed above the silent tomb. 

They come around the hearthstone there 

And breathe for me a silent prayer; 

They gaze in awe at each pictured scene, 

Each token of me that comes between 

The days that have lengthened to years since I 

Had taken my flight to the upper sky. 

How vain is man as he gazes there, 

On each crucifix in silent prayer, 

And knows not the way that the dead have birth, 

Away from the light of the angel hearth; 

Or whether with God their flight may be taken, 

Or fast asleep 'till the tomb is shaken 

With a mighty trumpet noise to wake 

Their sleep so dense, e'xe their flight they take; 

Is there not some way where the dead have flown, 

Some cord between to the yet unknown ? 

By which our existence fair and bright, 

Can glimmer through with a ray of light ? 

We answer yes; O, wait and see, 
What may be given from us to thee ; 
And open thy mind that we enter there 
With a ray of thought or a whispered prayer, 
Instilled like the dews on the flowers of even, 
That opens to catch as it falls from heaven. 

(C) 



26 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY, 



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Again the silent hearse has cast its mournful 
shadow within our midst; and the funeral tread 
has borne away one more of our number to the 
silent graveyard, whose cadences strike a knell 
upon the harp strings, in mournful melody, to the 
many weeping hearts o'er the last resting place of 
the dead, where the spring flowers will blossom 
and the wild birds sing their requiem, and the 
passer-by again pause to point the finger to a 
new made grave, and sigh o'er the final resting 
place of all. 

For like the unfledged bird within its mother's 
nest, they see not the green fields and sunny skies 
that will greet their outstretched wings when they 
are able to soar away unfettered among the bios 
soms of summer. 

And so it is with death to the mortal vision of 
many. The lips so hushed and still in death's 
embrace no more to them breathe forth in silent 
accents of love and tenderness, for they hear them 
not. 



DEATH. 27 

But to me they come around us in the form and 
robes of loveliness which earth knows not. They 
whisper in our ears the words of tenderness, they 
hear them not. They press upon their lips the 
love untold in words, striving in vain to soothe 
the mourning hearts which know not of their 
presence. 

They bring bright wreaths of flowers from their 
sweet, sunny clime, and place upon their brow 
longing for some known way. in which their loved 
ones, still on earth, may know their presence. 
To let them know that the dead, cold form of clay, 
they laid so tenderly away to rest within the 
tomb, is but the rusty garment which they wore 
on earth to shield that pure, bright spirit form in 
its enfoldment which God so gloriously had made 
for life eternal. 

Then weep no more, for while the funeral train 
passed on, above the hearse that bore the earthly 
form, I saw her with a band of spirits bright; with 
wreaths of flowers and harps of music she hov- 
ered o'er that funeral train, she pressed her lips 
of love upon the- brow of those who wept for her. 

I saw her strive in vain to soothe their grief, to 
tell her tale of brighter worlds, of green and snnny 
climes, in which she roamed in spirit worlds. 
How she longed to soothe their grief, to tell them 
that she lived and would leave them not, but day 
by day she'd come to them and strive to breathe 
a thought within their mind, to tell them of the 
sweet and lovely worlds where spirits dwell that's 
s;ood and true. 



28 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

I saw her brilliant in her lovely robe, stirring 
up the multitude of spirits bright as they passed, 
saying wake the reveries of these mourning friends 
of mine. Tell them that I sleep, no more. That 
earth has not a portal to hold me in the tomb. 
Let them know that I live, clothed in beauty, 
strong as an empire; not gone away in the cold 
and silent dust, or in the heavens where I see them 
not, or feel not their pangs. 

Then I saw the spirits come and cluster near, 
spoke in trumpet tones of love, told of beauties 
far away in worlds eternal. But the mourners 
and waiting friends heard them not, for their 
minds were fed on delusion, thinking of a heaven 
far away where spirits lived, or mortals resting 
lowly in the grave till God should bid them rise 
to judgment. 

0, the joys of earth supernal! Unknown to 
man. Which makes life Ti«re a paradise when 
we behold bright spirits of our loved ones hovel- 
ing near, bearing bright blossoms of immortality, 
to scatter o'er the earth, and lift us from its sor- 
rows, its thorns, as we behold the blossoms which 
ivill perfect in the ages yet to come. 

There is no death, but life more bright, 
Unfolding to our view, 
And from death's gloom of darkest night 
To life we're passing through. 

Its wisdom, and its joys and love, 
Surpasses all we know, 
For those that live in realms above, 
Exceeds the earth below. 



DEATH. 29 



In knowledge and in science great, 
In joys and sorrows too, 
We have not passed beyond the state 
Where this we do not view. 

But time doth work its endless way, 
To where our lives will be, 
So high in brighter worlds of light, 
Its joys no sorrows see. 

Then God, in his great creative plan, 
Of all his works we know, 
Has brought the joys destined for man, 
Instead of endless woe. 

And so eternal praises give 
To God who made all life, 
Immortal to progress and live, 
Beyond all sin and strife. 



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THE MOTHER'S REPLY. 

I hear thy sad wail of regret for the hours 

Of childhood again, from my heavenly bowers, 

And whither my flight o'er the earth I have sped, 

And angel of light to strew o'er thy head 

The heavenly blossoms of patience and love, 

To guide thy sad thoughts to the bright worlds above, 

That are waiting to greet thee when earth cares are o'er, 

And its sorrows will then be remembered no more. 

There no mildew of time its brightness can rust, 
In the world which is fadeless, O, child of the dust ! 
Then mourn not, and grieve not, for days which are flown, 
Whose fruits yield a harvest, thy soul wealth has sown 
For others to reap. There's a world that doth give 
Its merits impartial to all that doth live ; 
Its truthful endowments on each to bestow, 
For man sees the surface, while God sees below. 

The jewels of thought which embellish the mind, 
In wisdom and virtue forever will shine ; 
When the veil is uniifted immortal to view, 
The brightest will be which are noblest and true. 
Then treasure the wealth of the soul to adorn 
Thy life with its luster through ages to come, 



'ROCK ME TO SLEEP." 31 

For there in its brightness 'twill sparkle and beam, 
Where each hidden thought in the future will gleam. 

The time is so short that you live on the earth, 

Compared to the length of eternity's birth, 

That you should not grow weary o'er sorrow and tears ; 

Like the mists of the morning which soon disappears ; 

In the radiant light that is given to all, 

Relieving the soul of the shroud and the pall, 

Where the treasures of thought will sparkle and shine, 

A radiant luster through all coming time. 



32 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 



>ly0terie£ of Bekveif g J&jft View. 

The joys of earth can never know the wild emotions of the 

soul, 
Just ushered into celestial bowers of life eternal, 
Opening upon the senses, the eternal morn of unending life, 
Meeting face to face with friends long forgotten ; 
Beholding the viewless strand of unending space, 
Somber shadows dark in demon hate ; 
Wild emotions of an enfranchised power, 
Turbulent waves of the ceaseless soul steeped in bitterness 

and remore, 
O'er a life long existence in degredation dark, 
All, all, are these unfolded to your view 
As you stand upon the threshold which opens in grandeur on 

the eternal morning, 
Shaking hands with friends, 
Clasping some loved one in the tender embrace of a fathers's 

ceaseless care. 
Yes, all these are thine; when heaven opens up her doors to 

the immortal view ; 
Kegret where is she, in the best of lives she wrankles 
For retrospection brings her busy footsteps, 
Beguiling not, but showing here and there 
How our existence which had thus far progressed 
Had many failings, many causes for regret. 
But those whose acts were best, 
Seems to have a settled calmness sleeping in beauty on their 

brow. 



MYSTERIES OF HEAVEN'S FIRST VIEW. 

Who is there, in all the busy throng of life, 

When memory in her swift winged course 

Doth lift the seal. 

Does not open up some deeds of nothingness and shame ; 

Some misspent hours. 

Some trifling ways, that yields no fruit; 

Such, I answer, are few among the many, 

Whom sin and strife hath yielded up dark deeds in life; 

All these are ours. 

How can we rest in grandeur, in the eternal morn, 

When unknown to us is unending life, 

Such shall be ours no more. 

When heaven rests her truths upon the mind, 

And life shall know 

That all our acts, and deeds, with us to heaven climb. 



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84 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY, 



doix}6 iff) fti^l\ef. 



Come up higher ! Loving angels 
Watch and guard thee day by day; 

Ever let thy onward footsteps, 
Into wisdom's pathway stray. 

Hands Divine have woven ever, 

Our existence to beguile, 
Some one's life, perchance more lowly, 

And to cheer them with our smile. 

Ever saying, come up higher! 

Strew with flowers their pathways bright: 
This will raise the lowly hearted 

One step higher to the light. 

So our loved ones gone before us, 

To the higher worlds above, 
God has sent with words of kindness, 

Full of wisdom, full of love. 

Saying to our lives more lowly, 
Come up higher, you shall see 

He has made forever onward, 
Still more happiness for thee. 



COME UP HIGHER. 35 



Thus it is through time eternal, 
God in wisdom made it so; 

That our lives must aid the lowly. 
If we'd higher, upward go. 

This will bring each one nearer, 
To a higher plane above; 

For the worst of life is better, 
If we speak to them in love. 



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¥lie Wkjd. 



The wind, the wind, ah! whither art thou, 
In your wayward flight as you kiss my brow. 
Have you come to me, from the far off shore, 
Where the billows bound add the oceans roar, 

To whisper a tale of the mariner bold, 
Whose ship went down with a fate untold ? 

Then away in your flight, o'er the crested sea. 

O'er the storm-tossed waves of the ocean free, 

To the towering pines on the mountain crest, 
Where you rock the eagles in their nest, — 

Then whirling around with wildest freak 

In the crater's rocky cavern deep ; 

Then away in your flight, from the cloud-capped snow 
Of mountain peak to valley below, 

Where the crested waves roll to the sea. 

And forests rock in their mirth and glee, 

Or have you stole on your wings of air, 
To fan the brow of the monarch fair, 

Or the ancient sage as he ponders o'er 

The hidden depths of forgotten lore. 

Then fleeing away in your frolicsome glee, 
Where the rosy bowers and the orange tree 



THE WIND. 37 

Are blending their richness and fragrance rare, 
In thy gentle breath, oh, beautiful air ! 

Or do you come with a love lit song, 
Which you stole away as you sped along, 
From the lover's lips that are gliding free 
In their fairy skiff, o'er some moon-lit sea ? 

Or yet you may bring me the whispering tone, 
Of anguishing hearts that are beating alone 
In the dreary world with the sigh and the tear, 
O'er the buried hopes 'neath the shroud and the bier. 

Or do you come from the battle plain, 
Where loves are lost, and the noble slain, 
With a last fond message, a whispered prayer, 
Which the patriot breathed on the midnight air, 

In the humble cot 'neath rosy bowers, 
Where innocence blends with birds and flowers ; 
Thou art, O, wind! in thy freaks the same, 
As where palace dome rear wealth and fame. 

Where the busy strife of the world doth win, 

In gaudy array of fashion and sin, 

Thou art blending thy breath at the gilded shrine, 
As where virtue is reaping the rubies of mind. 

For free is thy breath, oh, wings of the air ! 
Dwelling alike with joy and despair ; 

Caring not whither or whence you go, 

From torrid clime, to regions of snow. 

And thus I am asking, and asking in vain, 
From whither thou art, but yet 'tis the same ; 
You stop not to answer, for whither you go, 
'Tis only in fancy that mortals may know. 



38 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 



Man, in all ages, seems to be governed by cer- 
tain principles. Those principles originate from 
events and circumstances incumbent upon him. 

Life seems to be fettered within the brain. The 
brain gives activity to the muscular form which 
enwraps the spiritual man enfolded within the 
material. 

What is this inner man? You shall readily 
discover two important facts, which I will illus- 
trate: First — From whence life emanates. Sec- 
ond — Of what is the real substance or existence 
of this life composed ? 

Turn a leaf with me and go into the meander- 
ings of science. First take the mechanism of 
mind. See how each atom which forms its exist- 
ence comes from the entire universe — being a part 
and particle of the whole. Each atom therein 
coming in contact with others and combining in 
one individual the life of man. Thus, man is 
termed an epitome of the universe, because he is 
composed of a part and particle of each and every 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 39 

atom which composes the universe. Therefore, to 
expound the mechanism of man, we must see of 
w T hat substance man's form maybe analyzed. See 
of what parts which compose it are of visible sub- 
stances, and what parts are composed of invisible 
substances. 

By this means we can come to the true condi- 
tion of man. For first, O, Man! it is wise to know 
thyself. 

Now then, if man is composed of each and every 
particle of the universe, to discover the true 
mechanism of man we must first see of what the 
universe is composed. 

Of the sixty-three elements now known, are en- 
tered into the combinations of other elements, as 
air, water, oxygen, nitrogen, carbonic acid, hy- 
drogen, potash, minerals, &c.,and is there anything 
in existence which you can name, but what is a 
counterpart of the w T hole combined the elements 
of creation; the whole universe. All is God, in 
whom we live and exist and have our being. Then 
we must compose a part of the Infinite, as God is 
infinite; and then we must be composed of infinite 
and unchanging elements in a part of our compo- 
sition. As infinite are the elements of creation, 
the elements of the universe, the elements of God, 
in whom we form a part and parcel of the vast 
whole — the body of God. 

Thus it was that Jesus, the medium of old, ex- 
claimed: " In God we live and move and have our 
being." Or inspiration — "That God is everywhere 



40 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

present. Go into the depth of hell, and God is 
there. Go into the bowels of the earth, and God 
is there." "God is all, and in all, and we are made 
in the image and likeness of God." 

Why is it so ? Because we are formed of a part 
and particle of the entire whole, an epitome of the 
universe. 

Composed of a part and particle of every atom 
therein contained, into a certain life. Through 
the laws of attraction which concentrate all life 
and bodies in a form, and holds the entire uni- 
verse in one body. 

For attraction pervades every part and particle 
of space throughout the whole, making one en- 
tire whole of all we see or behold, contained 
within the universe. 

That attraction pervades the whole in every 
part and particle of space, is obvious from 
the simple fact, that melted lead falling from 
a tower will attract or combine in little round 
balls (by which the well known means of shot is 
made) as it passes through space to the earth, 
demonstrating that the substance of attraction is 
everywhere, even in every breath we breathe. 

Attraction. What is it? A changing or an 
unchanging substance ? Certainly it is not chang- 
ing, or creation would long ago severed in a wild 
mass of confusion and discord. 

Then it is unchanging. Let us see. If it is a 
spiritual or material substance. Material sub- 
stance is changed by the laws of heat and cold. 



LESSONS ON LIFE, 41 

This substance of attraction cannot be material 
then, as heat and cold pervade the universe eve* 
rywhere, and this element of attraction is passing 
through space everywhere, and would become 
thereby changed in passing through intense heat, 
and frozen regions of ice and snow. Consequent- 
ly if attraction was a changing substance, it would 
be changed to some other substance, and it would 
cease to attract in certain parts of the universe, 
and the universe would dissolve. 

So you see that attraction is an element per- 
vading; space everywhere, is unchanging, and is 
also an invisible element — we cannot see it. Then 
why not reason that attraction is nothing? Be- 
cause it is not visible to our sight. Let us see if 
it is a substance real and substantial or not. For 
instance, we will take this world; attraction 
reaches out from the sun through space, and holds 
this earth with a strength sufficient to bend it in 
an orbit around it. A world in magnitude like 
this could not have a substance in strength or 
power as substantial in a material cord, which 
you could see, sufficient in strength, supposing it 
could reach from the sun to this earth, to move 
it in a circular course around it. The centrifugal 
force would send it away in space, if attraction 
was not a real substance having more strength 
and power than any material cord, which would 
be sufficient to hold a world in an orbit around 
the sun. 

So you see that this fact explains that there are 

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42 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

invisible substances in the universe, that it is a 
real element, and an unchanging element, moves 
the material into motion; is unseen by us, only 
as we see the result of its power in visible sub- 
stances ; material substances, which are moved 
into activity by the invisible which pervades it 
and gives it life and motion. 

Again we will take another element which per- 
vades space, and is also a substance which helps 
to compose the universe. 

When Dr. Franklin sent his kite up into the 
heavens to see what was there, and as his kite 
touched the electric current passing by, what was 
this substance which passed down the silken 
string into his glass receiver ? Was it a visible 
or invisible substance ? 

We answer it was invisible, for as he opened 
the glass receiver, seeming to contain nothing, 
they felt the shock of its substance. And yet it 
was unseen. And to-day it forms the invisible 
arteries which pass from Continent to Conti- 
nent, through all varieties of atmosphere which 
would change a material substance, conveying 
thoughts in its swift-winged speed. Which would 
be impossible if it were not electricity here and 
electricity also at the terminus of its journey. 
Unchanging, always producing the same result. 

Here, then, is another substance, unchanging 
by the laws of heat and cold, which changes the 
material. 

To illustrate farther, let us see if electricity 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 43 

passes through all substances like the element of 
attraction; or are there some substances which 
repel it ? It is obvious that it will not, for some 
substances will repel it and not let it pass 
through. What are these substances ? Trans- 
parent substances, as the lens of the eye, glass, 
and so forth. 

Again, let us see if there are unchanging ele- 
ments surrounding us and pervade through 
space which may be termed spiritual, alike un- 
changing, which is a different element than elec- 
tricity, and will transmit itself through the lens 
of che eye, glass, diamonds, and other transpar- 
ent substances. We will take light or the sun's 
rays. This element we are able to behold, being 
transmitted through the lens of the eye to the 
mind. 

Let us see if light is a material, or not. Let us 
see if light is changed by the laws of heat and 
cold. Supposing the sun ray to pass through 
space from the sun to the earth, what are the de- 
grees of cold and heat intervening between this 
distance? 

Why, go out in space two miles from this earth, 
and it will not melt ice in the hottest day in sum 
mer. Here is a fact which is obvious that the sun 
ray has passed through intense cold and heat in 
reaching this earth, for we are supposing this sun 
ray has reached the surface of the earth in the 
hottest temperature of a tropical clime, and two 
miles away. from this surface, it is intense cold, 



44 PENCILINOS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

and yet the element which composes the sun ray 
is unchanged by passing through these degrees. 

Then certainly it is not a material substance. 
For, from time as eternal as the universe, light 
has always been an unchanging substance, tra- 
versing the realms of space to the planets which 
pervades the solar system, and will continue the 
same unchanging element of light, pervading the 
universe, an element within it which helps to make 
up the grand arcana of the whole. 

How mysterious is thy mechanism, O God; and 
yet as we know more and more of Thee, we ]earn 
to know what composes ourselves, being an epi- 
tome of Thee. Searching after Thee, unfolding 
the powers Thou hast given us, learning more 
and more of Thee, understanding the principles 
wdiich compose Thy majesty. Growing, more 
and more in Godliness thereby. 

Thou art the life of every atom, for from Thee 
the atoms of life are attracted in a form, compos- 
ing the existence of all motion — the life of the 
w r hole entire. 

Then, as we would learn more and more of 
Thee, O, God! let us look into the intrinsic 
mechanism of life, and see of what it is com- 
posed. For life is in all we behold. Life per- 
vades in every atom which we see within the uni- 
verse, which makes each atom differ from others, 
and gives an identity to every substance that we 
see. For illustration — iron is not lead, and lead 
is no iron. What is the difference? Each has an 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 45 

individual life peculiar to itself, which makes it a 
substance of itself. Does each have life? What 
is that life ? It is that element contained in each 
and everything we behold, which keeps that ma- 
terial substance while it is contained within it 
from, changing to any other substance, which in- 
dividualizes each substance from any other sub 
stance. It is the individuality of itself, and that 
which distinguishes one substance from another. 
Then each substance must have a life principle 
which continues it the same substance as long as 
that life is attracted to it ; continues within it and 
is not expelling itself therefrom. Rock is not coal, 
and coal is not rock, and each has a life element 
which individualizes itself and continues it from 
dissolving into some other substance. Also, Ox 
ygen is not Hydrogen, and so on through all the 
different elements which compose creation. Is life 
visible or invisible ? You cannot see the life of 
any substance, and yet the grain of wheat or the 
kernel of corn has life contained within the seed, 
which will expand and unfold from out this seed. 
Concentrated within this seed is the whole stalk 
of grain. Look at this seed ! Is the life visible 
to you? No. And yet conditions will expand it 
forth to your gaze, as it attracts material or visi- 
ble atoms to it and show you its form, as visible 
atoms adhere to it and through each pore and 
life courses within it and through it, as it attracts 
visible atoms to it to clothe it, and show what is 
contained in the life of this tiny seed. 



46 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

We will now go to the life in man. What is it ? 
What composes it ? What composes his physical 
structure, his material form. Look at it! Here is 
a compound of every substance in the universe 
which we behold. What has acted on these dif- 
ferent particles to draw them in a body ? -And 
what animates it into a life? See it has the life 
element of every substance, which was peculiar to 
each and every material atom and substance, 
when in an unorganized condition, which com- 
poses this body. The invisible element of at- 
traction acts upon each life element in each mate- 
rial atom which composes this body, and unites 
it in one compound. And behold here we have 
the spiritual body, which is invisible ; also the 
material body w r hich is visible, entwining itself 
in one. Behold here is the invisible form within 
it, for this body has a compound of each and 
every invisible which individualized the different 
material substances before they were attracted 
into one body. And as the life which character- 
ized each material substance was spiritual and 
invisible, these different life elements have now 
united in chemical affinity and formed a spiritual 
body as well as a material body. 

Behold! Here the light has dawned. We see 
a material body and a spiritual body united in 
affinity, for it is impossible for one to come into 
existence without the other. 

What is holding these different elements of all 
these various life-elements in a form or body? 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 47 

Why, the unseen, the spiritual, unchanging ele- 
ment of attraction, which holds the universe in a 
form from time unto eternal time, never changing 
its doings. For, to-day, the apple which drops 
from your hand draws toward the earth, and at- 
traction will continue the same forever. 

Therefore, spiritual elements once attracted in 
a body can never separate, because the law which 
holds them in a body is unchanging, and the 
spiritual elements thus united are also unchange- 
able, while the material which is in affinity is 
changeable by the law of motion, and, the spir- 
itual body being always subject to motion, is 
therefore expelling the material atoms which mo- 
tion has changed and attracting new, and expell- 
ing them again, the same as the anatomist tells 
you. This motion of the spiritual form is thus 
creating non-affinity between the two, for the ma- 
terial as soon as changed would be unlike the spir- 
itual atoms which held it in a form. It would, 
therefore, be expelled away, for affinity can only 
exist where like substances attract like substances. 

This is the way the material body is changing 
and expelling itself away, and new material is 
being attracted, which is expelled in like manner 
unceasingly. 

While the spiritual body is expanding to its 
complete growth and progress — like the life^in 
the kernel of wheat, to its complete size — w^hich 
is called the growth of man. If this be not the 
fact, why does man cease his growth at a certain 



48 PENC1LINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

period, for he is still eating the same food and 
breathing the same air ? The spiritual body is 
the unchanging model which always sustains us 
in> the same form or species, through all change 
and waste atoms of the material, until this non- 
affinity becomes so great that the spiritual ceases 
to impress or display itself through the material, 
and then, like all other bodies, its development 
requires another condition as all things are mov- 
ing onward by God's laws of progression, conse- 
quently its development would not require the 
material to infold it, no more than the insect 
would require the egg after its life had developed 
to a certain size or growth. 

So we would gradually become more and more 
in non-affinity with the material, until the spirit- 
ual body expelled the material body away en- 
tirely, all at one time, called death, instead of 
the progressive manner, by the invisible atoms 
which changed the material once in seven years 

While the mind which holds the spiritual body 
to it by the law of love, subject to its will, desires 
no change but a perpetuation of the same iden- 
tity, or love of life, as mind develops the nature 
of the unchangeable elements which compose its 
origin. The substance from which it is created 
and the created must naturally sustain a nature 
the same, and desire the same, as the nature of 
the elements from which it is composed. 

For illustration, a material substance which 
was constantly changing from one substance to 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 49 

another, or to different forms and shapes, must 
desire change as its nature, and follow the law of 
its being, seeking change the same as the nature 
of the elements from which it is composed, while 
an unchanging or an immortal immaterial sub- 
stance could not desire change but perpetuation 
of the same identity, being composed of un- 
changeable elements, it could not desire a posi- 
tion differing from the nature of the substance 
composing its life. 

Consequently, there is seen to exist in nature 
two opposites — material which is seeking change 
and immaterial or unchanging substances which 
desire no change, but perpetuation of the same 
identity through life eternal. Hence it is seen, 
the love of life so innate in all animated beings, 
from the smallest atom of mind which shrinks 
from danger, to the highest development of intel- 
lectual reason in man. But as mind expels itself 
with the spirit body, which is attached in affinity 
to it, and which it lipids subject to the will of this 
mind, the same as in its first manifestations 
through the material, it steps forth in another 
condition suited to its wants or developments. 
And the material body lies a motionless, chang- 
ing mass of material substance, desiring change, 
seeking its affinity in the elements from whence 
it came. .The spirit body has stepped forth free 
in power; having the same organization, living, 
breathing, governed by the mind, the will being 
the real and eternal man. Invisible to man be- 

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50 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

cause it is composed of spiritual elements, held 
in a form by the invisible force of attraction, 
which is in affinity with it Attraction being also 
a spiritual substance, the two could never cease 
their affinity, "as like substance attracts like sub- 
stance." 

Here, then, is an immortal body governed by 
the will, the mind which sits enthroned within 
the spiritual brain, the same power which has 
moved it into activity in its first creation, and 
continues the same in all eternal time. 

What laws, then, in space are governing the 
spirit body or any spiritual substance ? Certainly 
the law of gravitation does not, for that attracts 
the material and holds it to this earth. The law 
of cavitation has never controlled the spiritual 
mind, not when it was in harmony with the ma- 
terial and dwelt within it, for mind has been ever- 
able to send its thoughts away to regions of space 
in the most distant parts, from which it had its 
origin. The law of gravitation is not holding 
thoughts. We can send them away to the dis- 
tant stars, and then back again. They could al- 
ways traverse where any spiritual element could 
go, and yet they were confined to the central orb, 
the mind, and came and went as the mind saw fit 
to dictate. 

Therefore, when the spiritual body had ex- 
pelled the material body which the law of gravi- 
tation held to this earth, it was then no longer in 
harmony with the material, and the mind gov- 
erned the spirit body by the will the same as at 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 51 

its first formation; therefore, the will or mind, 
or thoughts, could traverse space, the spiritual 
body subject to the will of the mind, passing away 
through the air, the same as thoughts now soar 
away to distant regions and return. 

Space would be no more to impede t!ie course 
of the spiritual body than it would any spiritual 
current or element which passes through space, 
the same as the electric current everywhere 
around us, then away in distant regions space 
would be no more, in comparison, to impede the 
spiritual body, moved by the will of the mind, 
than the ocean would be to the fish which glides 
its sylph-like proportions everywhere through it, 
whether it be to some coral cave, where in the 
tiny egg its life began, or away through its sil- 
very depths to some more beautiful resting place. 

Such is life immortal, invisible and unknown 
to man, who is unfolding in the first era of his ex- 
istence 3 blinded to the beautiful existence he is 
yet through change destined to till. As the worm 
enwrapt in its silken cocoon is unable to behold 
the golden-winged butterfly it is yet through 
change destined to become. 

So are we to-day. We live in God, and it will 
be the same through all eternal time — each change 
ascending higher in the nobler perfections of De- 
ity. Yet it hath no ending, for space is bound- 
less and its realms are infinitude. Then, O God! 
Thy majesty enfeebles our tongue to depict, and 
Thy beauty is from everlasting to everlasting. 



52 PENCILING^ FROM IMMORTALITY. 



¥i}e ge^or^. 



The incoming life of the seasons is Spring-, 
With snatches of song on her flowery wing, 
She is lifting the buds into opening flowers; 
From the ice-bound fetters of wintry hours. 

She is spreading the brown earth with carpets of green. 
Interlacing with cloudlets of silvery sheen; 
The waters are leaping and laughing in glee r 
On their murmuring voyage away to the sea. 

Thus Spring, with light footsteps over the earth, 

Awakens to life the glorious birth 

Of nature's sweet voices again on the ear, 

In musical gladness with sunshine and tear. 

Gliding onward and onward, with frolicsome glee, 
'Till the song of the summer and hum of the bee 
Is the musical lay she is singing so sweet, 
O'er the blossoming landscape submerging in heat. 

While to cool her warm forehead the zephyrs at play, 
O'er the green flowry meadows are winging their way 
To the green leafy bowers where the song of the bird 
"And the musical lay of the Cookoo is heard." 

The butterfly gay and the humming bird sweet, 
Are winging their way to some rosy retreat, 



THE SEASONS. 53 

Gliding onward and onward, to sip from the flowers 
The sweet honey-dew in the bright summer hours. 

Thus she sings the glad song of the sweet summer time, 
'Till she wreaths her fair brow with a wreath more sublime, 
And tinges the glow of the blue summer sky, 
More complete with the hue of the autumn dye. 

She sprinkles her costume with silver and gold, 
From treasures she's bearing in measures untold, 
To lay at the feet of the reaper of sheaves, 
And bring the ripe fruit from the clustering leaves. 

Thus onward she glides in halo of light, 
'Till autumn winds come, with frosting to blight, 
And scatter the leaves to spread o'er the bier, 
She's bringing to welcome the close of the year. 

Then she flings o'er the earth her mantle of snow, 
And fetters the streams in their murmuring flow, 
And brings the white robes of pureness to dress 
The close of the year in the sweetness of rest. 

Thus man, like the seasons, is gliding along, 
In the spring of his life it is gladness and song, 
The summer is bringing a joy more complete, 
The perfected blossom is bringing its sweet. 

Until in the autumn of life, it is more 
Complete in its treasures of mind laid in store, 
'Till the winter of life in its pureness is dressed 
And the white robes are bringing the sweetness of rest. 

But rest only comes to the body of clay, 

The spirit immortal is winging its way 

To worlds more complete, where the seasons doth bring, 

The verdure eternal of glorious spring. 



54 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 



Si^ef. 



Higher, upward, man an woman, 
Each and all new truths to gain; 
That your footsteps leave impressions 
On the monument of fame. 



That to history be transmitted, 
Deeds and truths that may be thine, 
You have earnestly unfolded 
To the onward march of time. 



Higher is this age of progress, 
To the age of long ago, 
When the martial tread of science 
Beat so turbulent and slow. 

Then why not each one endeavor, 
For the men of ages past, 
Knew not that their lives forever 
Down to history would last. 

Hills of progress rise before thee, 
Onward ! search the depth of cause ! 
It will lift thy mind still upward, 
And unfold great Nature's laws. 



HIGHER. 55 



If your life-work has been ever 
To promote the Truth and Light — 
Braving scorns and persecutions 
That you may stand in the right, 

Then the life which is eternal, 
On the hills of Time will gleam; 
When from earth you'll take departure, 
Still more brighter life will seem. 



56 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY, 



¥}\q I<ife Stfe&q of ^Iki\ hM 
Worqki\. 

Upon the banks of a tiny stream, 
Which from the mountain rocks did gleam 

Like a silver thread, and wound along 
Through moss and flowers with murmuring song. 

There played two children, a girl and boy, 

Among the pebbles in childish joy; 
And each so happy and full of glee, 

Seemed like the rivulet, in nature free. 

They wandered on and the brook grew wide, 

And I saw them playing still beside 
The stream, each gathering flowers that grew, 

Upon its banks, in the glistening dew. 

Or climbing trees where the wild birds sung 
In the branches which o'er the waters hung; 

Then away with the butterfly and bee 
In a chase among the blossoms free. 

Then rolling upon the mossy green, 
Which fringes the banks of the sunny stream, 

And gazing away in the bright blue dome, 
Where the sunlight strays from its far-off home, 



THE LIFE STREAM OF MAN AND WOMAN 

And tinges with glory the mountain crest, 
And the eagle's home, in her lofty nest, 

And they gaze on the glory with wondering eye, 
'Till weary of searching the .bright blue sky. 

They fall asleep in a golden dream, 
And the hours speed on with time unseen; 

And none could doubt but nature smiled, 
The same her treasures upon each child. 

That God made the sunshine, the fruits and flowers, 
Alike for both in their youthful hours, 

But as time sped on a change came o'er 
The two that seemed so equal before . 

For the stream had grown to a river strong, 
And I saw but one that wandered along 

By its banks, to gather on every side 
The wealth of fame for his manhood's pride, 

From the halls of learning of ancient lore 
He coined the wealth of mind in store, 

And the world's bright laurels he gathers now, 
To crown with honors his manly brow. 

But where is she who strayed by his side, 
Gathering treasures where the stream did glide 

The same as he, in their youthful hours, 
Gathering gifts from nature's bowers. 

Ah! the world has said the time has come, 
When her sphere is only within her home; 

That God had bestowed the treasures of earth 
Upon only those of mankind's birth. 

That the river of life with its jewels so fair, 
Bringing wealth to the mind and the intellect rai e 

Were only a gift by that bountiful hand, 
Intended, most surely, for none but the man, 

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58 PENCILING^ FROM IMMORTALITY. 

Oh! selfish man ! when treasures by thee, 
On the river of life are gathered so free, 

That you covet them all, and think they were made 
By a partial hand at thy feet to be laid. 



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Prosperity prompts man to action. Nature 
gives him suitable means whereby to unfold these 
latent powers so visible in each and every life. 

Behold the forward march of ages ! Giving each 
life suitable means to develop therein, unfolding 
the principles so long slumbering in obscurity. 

Time was when man looked into the dark un- 
known and from out its terror chilled humanity 
with scenes of horror. For its dismal vaults 
echoed no answer to their vain inquiries. Why 
was it so ? Because superstition in its wild im- 
aginings closed up the sepulchres in obsequies 
and funeral rites, and upon it closed the seal, 
which was death to the searcher's gaze. 

Time buried them in oblivion and no echo an- 
swered whitherward they had flown, until reason 
unfolded the truth for evermore to our gaze. How 
was it accomplished ? By the wayward blossoms 
which expanded into life when reason resumed 
her sway through some organizations more richly 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 59 

endowed by nature for the accomplishment of 
greater efforts in mental adaptation. Therefore, 
reason and enlightenment prevailed because these 
are based on truth. Facts which sweep the im- 
aginings of erroneous conclusions like the mists 
from the brow of heaven, when light enfolds her 
radiance in noonday effulgence, radiating the 
earth in brilliancy. 

Where is man to-day ? The mist is fast dis- 
persing from the hill tops, and the valleys beneath 
catch a glimpse of its grandeur. Heaven smiles 
upon earth, for the reflection of mind is ever lift- 
ing the veil which shadows in gloom the gifts of 
reason, with which God has so nobly endowed 
each and every individual of His creation. 

Go where you will, reason is sweeping before 
its footprints false creeds and theories of che day, 
whose foundation rock stands not upon facts — 
demonstrated as facts to man. Why is it so ? 
Because man is not content to follow the wild im- 
aginings of past ages of superstition. A holier 
light of truth has dawned to man ; for to-day sci- 
ence teaches a truth, demonstrated as a truth, by 
which facts lead the way and open up the light 
which is eternal. 

Immortality is known to be a fact, for immortal 
principles have been discovered to exist which 
make up the component parts of the mechanism 
of man. How have these been discovered ? By 
the unfoldment of reason in man, which has from 
age to age been constantly brought to light. 



60 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

Who have brought these Immortal elements to 
our comprehension and made a certainty of ex- 
istence ? It has been the voice of reason. For I 
have shown you the elements of the universe, 
which compose the form of man's physical struc- 
ture and the elements which are unchanging, 
consequently immortal, which compose and make 
up his invisible, unchanging, immortal form en- 
closed within it. 

Let us see what first unfolded these immortal 
principles or substances to exist, and from which 
creation Is composed. Reason, which has had its 
rapid growth all along down the ages of time, 
until the present orb ot light, the voice of inspir- 
ation, has come to man through the path of sci- 
ence, which discloses the principles by which 
mind exists ; discloses the powers of the mind its 
actions upon the body, the physical structure. 
The emotions which characterize the mind and 
makes its existence a certainty. The ways and 
different means b}^ which it forces itself through- 
out the body, and also acts upon the mind of 
others, through its will powers making it to move 
in a channel by which the thoughts of one mind 
may be imparted to the thoughts of another, in- 
dependent of the material, for mind is not mate- 
rial, therefore, mind Is the governmental power 
which moves the material and makes it subserv- 
ient to its will. This is the means by which 
minds which have expelled the material form 
away from it entirely, can also the same in its 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 61 

own identity move the material of another person 
if that spirit mind can throw its thoughts upon 
the mind of another mind, which has not expelled 
the material body away from it. For this dis- 
embodied mind, freed from the material could, 
therefore, act upon the mind which was not dis- 
embodied from the material, as the material is 
only a substance moved by the will powers of the 
mind, consequently would not be governed by the 
material, for material is always governed by the 
mind, and invisible forces of the spirit form. 
Therefore mind is an independent identity of 
itself, not subject to the material, for the object 
governed is always subject to the powers that 
govern it. So you see mind, whether disembod- 
ied or embodied in the material, would hold its 
supremacy and individual identity. Therefore, 
mind is the thinking, the reasoning, the invisible, 
which forms the eternal mechanism of life. It is 
the existence, the comprehension ; the thought, 
therefore, is the eternal creation of existence, for 
this is the immortality of man. 

The invisible, the life principle, which moves 
visible objects and makes us a living, breathing 
existence. 

1 have explained the elements which compose 
mind in the preceding chapter of this work and 
my position is immovable for it is founded on 
facts, which are susceptible to reason ; therefore 
can be substantiated as truth, as we do not wan- 
der from knowm laws and principles extant 



62 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

throughout creation. We only take Tip facts to 
illustrate a truth of immortality. 

Then if it can be refuted by facts we will say 
our structure has dissolved ; if not, we say it is a 
new born principle, eternal forevermore, and si- 
lence must concede to us our position. 

Written upon the pages of history, man was 
destined to lead before him the fulfillment of 
prophecy. How could this be done without some 
principle by which this fact was produced ? In- 
telligence seemed to be spontaneously given from 
some unseen source which acted upon the minds 
susceptible to this intelligence. Shall we say God 
was a being who was forbidden the way and 
means by which to communicate His intelligence 
alike to the creations which He had made and 
formed into life, by which means he could not 
have the ruling power over all, and each and 
every one, susceptible to the intelligence imparted 
throughout all and in all alike ? We answer that 
God is Infinite ; therefore, He could approach one 
individual as well as another to impart invisible 
intelligence. 

But it seems historic records of man in all 
ages, as well as this, have had certain individuals 
through which inspiration came, or individuals 
whom to impart some kind of manifestation 
which was invisible. We answer that this invis- 
ible intelligence must come from a finite power. 
Why is it so ? From the simple fact that this 
unseen intelligence seems to be limited to certain 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 63 

organizations or adapted to certain organiza- 
tions adapted to the influence of mind. As some 
minds are not governed and controlled by the 
will power of another mind, here is the point: If 
this intelligence was from God, this theory would 
make God subject to some minds, and some 
would have a stronger will than He ; consequent- 
ly could not be operated upon to impart the 
thoughts. 

Thus you see how flimsy is the assertion, that 
intelligence invisible which has come to man in 
all ages, must originate from the Omnipotent 
mind, who was unable to control each and all 
alike. 

But we do know from known principles and 
facts that the mind of man, whether in the 
material body or out of it — we care not which — 
has a power within itself to throw its thoughts 
upon another mind and make that mind subject 
to the influence or will of another mind ; speak 
the thoughts and move the material according 
to the will of the mind controlling that individ- 
ual, whether it be to see what that mind designed 
for them to see, or whether it be to speak what 
that mind designed for them to speak, or whether 
it be to move the arm and write sentences, or 
whether it be a paralyzation of the whole system, 
according to the will of the mind operating upon 
that individual. 

So you see we are only showing the action of 
mind upon mind, and demonstrating new prob- 



64 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

lems for the investigation of man, to see from 
what source the various effects are produced 
which are moving humanity onward. 

As I have shown you in various ways how in- 
visible intelligence comes to man and demonstra- 
ted the immortality of mind, let us go into the 
meanderings of science and unfold new beauties 
yet a little farther. 

Who shall say that man is immortal, and then 
prohibit the immortality of life, possessing other 
forms and shapes ? Though horrifying it may 
seem to break upon the ear, let us see what is 
truth and what is not truth. Though buried deep 
by popular sentiments, nevertheless cannot evade 
its certainty. Shall we try ? Let us know the truth ; 
on truth only shall we base our arguments. 

On truth we must stand. All is truth which 
can be demonstrated as a truth. 

Therefore let us learn the truth, for truth is 
God, working all and in all. 

Then let us see if life dwelling in other forms 
and shapes than this which is identical with man 
is eternal or is not ? We answer, it is. 

And upon the same basis which I have proven 
the immortality of the life of man, I will prove 
the immortality of all life in all its various forms, 
subject to the conditions of its development. 

It is plainly seen that change is written in in- 
sect and animal life; and yet that change has not 
destroyed the identity of that life. The animal 
creations are never losing their identity; for the 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 65 

material which composes that form is moved by 
the invisible principle of life. And life, as I have 
shown before, cannot cease to exist, because life 
is held in a body by the unchangeable element of 
attraction, out of all the invisible life principles 
united in chemical affinity, from each and every 
material atom which is drawn in a body by the 
forces which acts upon the life principle which is 
individualizing each and every material atom 
concentrated in one body. This would unite an 
invisible 'spiritual form, if it were possible to 
conceive how an invisible form was united, for the 
life in each material substance is the substance 
which gives that atom life or motion; and as I 
have shown you in a previous chapter that this 
life element was invisible, acted upon by the uni- 
versal substance of attraction, concentrating in a 
certain body such material atoms as were har- 
monizing or affinitizing to unite. Such atoms, 
when uniting in one body, would form a life pe- 
culiar to the atoms thus concentrated, and this 
life would be abundant in all the various forms 
and shapes which we behold. 

For illustiation, elements which have no affin- 
ity for each other, as oil and tvater, will unite in 
chemical affinity if potash (which is having an 
attraction for both) is introduced, thus forming a 
compound different from either of the substances 
introduced or contained therein. And again, let 
acid be placed therein so as to produce a non- 
affinity of these elements united in one, it will 

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66 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

separate the old compound, forming a new one. 

Thus it is that the material body dissolves. 
For substance uniting in one compound will dis- 
solve the elements contained or the elements 
which make up the old compound, will, by the 
introduction of some other element, as the acid 
introduced in this composition, separate and 
unite again in a different compound. 

Therefore, it is evident that certain material 
atoms uniting will form different substances and 
different compounds. So it is with material 
atoms contained in a body or compound, and 
that body affinitizing into life would produce a 
life, a shape, and a form peculiar to the atoms 
thus concentrated or uniting. Thus it is we see 
life in so many different forms and shapes, so 
extant throughout creation. The life is peculiar 
in form and shape to the atoms uniting or pre- 
dominating — one more abundant than another, 
and concentrating in affinity. 

Thus it is you see the glorious perfection of 
Deity and the majesty of the elements which com- 
poses his form, constantly moving on in creative 
principles unchanging and eternal. 

O, God! we are awed with thy majesty as we 
comprehend the mechanism of thy structure. 

See the creative principles which forms life into 
existence and perpetuate that existence in all 
time to come. For look to-day at the new insect 
life which springs into existence from certain in- 
dividual atoms affinitizing together which com- 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 67 

poses that life, and changes from one form to 
another. 

That life is perfecting more and more to a high- 
er, nobler existence, making up a universe per- 
fecting more and more as they reach higher and 
higher, unfolding in the elements that created 
them. 

How is this accomplished ? By the laws of 
progression, which is moving all things we be- 
hold, higher and higher, toward a more perfect 
existence. 

Take the history of man. Science teaches us 
that progression is bearing him onward steadily 
as the wind which sweeps onward eternally. 

Progression is written on the face of nature 
everywhere. The waving fields denote it, the tall 
wilderness falls away before the giant strokes of 
civilization, and every breath wafts us on to a 
more perfect existence. Why is it so ? Because 
God has decreed it in the forces which move His 
entire form — the universe . 

Behold, where you will, life grows toward per- 
fection, searching more and more after wisdom, 
unfolding new sciences, bearing us onward, stead- 
ily in one forward march; completing new truths, 
traversing unknown fields of science. If life 
in man is progressive, then life in any form or 
shape in which it may exist, is also progressive. 
For life is an individual identity of itself, an 
eternal immortal element; some possessing it to 



68 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

a greater and some to a less degree, as we see 
manifest in the creation around us. 

Life in man is simply an organization more 
perfected in its uiifoldments, being, an existence 
adapted as such from the more refined elements 
that enter into his combination or compose his 
origin . 

Therefore, we would be more susceptible to 
greater and more rapid advancement, being a 
mechanism of elements combined in one form 
to the adaptation of higher reasoning faculties 
and yet the lower order of life possess the same 
faculties or attributes of mind, but in a less 
abundant quantity, in many respects, which 
makes them a low T er order of life, and yet the 
elements which compose their life is from eternal, 
unchanging principles and substances, which 
makes them alike immortal as well as all the 
life elements which we behold. Why is it so ? 
Because the element which composes and makes 
up a certain life is from the Infinite; consequent- 
ly it is an established fact that life is eternal, for 
the atoms which are in creation now are eternal, 
forming life. 

Space is a substance from out which originates 
life, for life is in space. Every atom which ex- 
ists in worlds exists in space. Air condenses and 
torms the element of water. So the elements of 
space condense into substance which exists 
therein. How is this so? Because organic 
bodies, dissolving, separates its atoms into 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 69 

the elements of space, and worlds propogate 
from atoms existing in space. For by chemical 
illustration the physical form of man, by the 
invisible workings of anatomic laws, expels the 
particles of waste atoms of the physical form, in- 
to the surrounding, into space, and also attracts 
new the same unceasingly. Then air or space 
must contain all the invisible particles of the 
physical form. For the physical atoms have been 
expelled forth, replacing them with new, through 
air and food, thus supplying the invisible change 
so imperceptible to the human physiology, nev- 
ertheless true, a fact developed through science. 
Then, as air is the element of space, space must 
contain the ceaseless supplies of, and rejected 
elements, of all life which maintain the same pro- 
cess of natural change common to all bodies. 

Air is seen to contain water; air is the elements 
of space in motion. By this air subsistance is 
given to creation. Then air must have an ele- 
ment to meet our wants. For by this air the 
senses seem to come. How t is this proven to be a 
fact? It is proven in this wise: Exclude 
air, or the life of the air, from an apartment 
where a person sits, and what is the result? 
Insensibility is the first impression seen to 
affect the mind. How is this, if the air is not 
the feeder, which brings us our thoughts. Then 
the air contains an invisible element which we 
attract in breathing, when uniting in chemical 
affinity with the mind, produces consciousness, 



70 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

which make us different than inanimate 
bodies, such as planets and worlds. Then, how 
is air bringing us our thoughts? We see it in 
this wise, as I stated previously in the commence- 
ment of this work: That the invisible form was 
what moved the material. So you see the action 
of this spirit body is to breathe, and this moves 
the material portions of the body which you see. 
Then the breath is the action, the movement of 
the spirit form which gives activity to the material. 
Then breath must be eternal. A movement of the 
spirit body, which process brings life or con- 
sciousness into tbe spirit form. Through chemi- 
cal affinity the inanimate mind lies in the spirit, 
brain or form. Then the motion of the spirit form 
is breath, simply the movement of eternal laws, 
attraction and repulsion, which are spirit forces. 
Does the breath draw in elements? Yes. What 
are those elements ? Combined together here in 
the air, near the earth, is the spiritual and ma- 
terial elements of air united. Then you have 
breathed in spiritual elements, have you not ? 
These elements, then, passing to the inanimate 
mind, which gives life and circulatory powers, 
the involuntary motion, the motion to the mater- 
ial. The mind being the common center of this 
power, consequently these elements, which come 
within the breath, must move into the common 
center which gives life and motion to the body. 
What is the result ? Here is produced within 
the mind— which is opened to receive it — the unit- 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 71 

ing of two spiritual powers or substances in 
chemical affinity. What is the result ? Thoughts 
are produced by the unity of these elements. 
The circulatory motion of the body is in 
the heart, being the common center of at- 
traction. So you see there are two powers — 
one is centered in the mind and the other cen- 
tered in the heart. This is what distinguishes the 
life of man, a different being than the life of 
worlds. Then again to our subject. The spirit- 
ual elements which we breathe coming in contact 
with the spiritual brain, being in affinity through 
the harmony of the laws of life, unite in chemi- 
cal affinity and forms an element differing from 
either, being a compound identical with itself, 
and forming into life, as they are both composed 
of life elements, uniting in one harmonious whole, 
perfect and immortal existence; because uniting 
from immortal elements, this brings an immortal 
existence formed and composed out of immortal 
elements. What is the result of this unity? Con- 
sciousness; for as I have shown before, the air 
contains immortal unchanging spiritual elements. 
That the air is the elements which compose space 
— being only space in motion around this earth, 
so the immortal elements seen in the universe 
must be therein contained. 

Now then I have previously proven that the ma- 
terial body concentrated all the life elements con- 
tained in each individual atom which makes up 
the material body. Then here are the immortal 



72 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

elements, the life in each and every atom concen- 
trated in a body by the laws which hold these 
material atoms in form, the physical structure of 
man, thus combining the invisible atoms peculiar 
to each material atom, which individualizes each 
material atom, one from another, and is the life 
of it, which keeps material atoms from dissolving 
into something else; thus individualizing a spirit 
body from unchanging immortal elements. 

Then, as I said before, the immortal is the life, 
the substance which gives life and motion to the 
material. What is the result of this motion seen 
animating the material ? It is attraction and re- 
pulsion, and moves the spirit form into activity, 
thus moving the material the same. And behold 
the living, breathing man. 

Then, as the nature of this mind is immortal, it 
seeks nothing but what is in accordance with its 
nature, but what is in harmony with the elements 
which compose it. This is immortality. Conse- 
quently you see every life, which is a living, 
breathing mind, shrinking from danger, shrink- 
ing from anything which infringes upon its ex- 
istence. 

Consequently the love of life is said to be a 
law governing all life and all existence. 

This mind, then, acts in accordance to its desires. 
This mind governs the spirit body, and the spir- 
itual body the material body. 

The thoughts of man partakes of the nature of 
the elements which composes them. This is im- 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 73 

mortality, the love of life, the perpetuation of the 
same identity, and binds and holds itself together 
according to its desires. This love of life being 
an attribute of mind, an attractive law holds it in 
a form, an existence, for evermore. For here are 
the elements, uniting through chemical affinity, 
which forms a compound, which is mind. This 
mind, then, is a substance governed by an- 
other law, the law which acts upon immor- 
tal principles, which is in harmony with the 
mind, and this is the aw of life. This law, 
then, is governing the mind; the mind is gov- 
erning the spiritual body, and being composed of 
unchanging elements, would affinitize itself to 
it, and thus hold it in a body, as long as mind 
existed, which would be eternal. The material 
body could not be in as close affinity with the 
mind, in its impressions, one upon the other, after 
the spiritual body had expanded to its complete 
unfoldment the growth of man, for this reason: 
The material body, affinitizing itself to the spir- 
itual body, would gradually become less and less 
in its affinity, for a changing material substance 
could not act in harmony with a spiritual sub- 
stance after that connecting link, which bound 
them together similarly through growth or expan- 
sion, ceased to exist, to a certain degree, for love 
of life or perpetuation of the same identity is 
contrary to the nature of material substances. 
Being of a changing substance, it must seek its 

affinity in something new, some other form of 

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74 PENGILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY, 

life, in which its nature is to expand in growth, 
or change to the elements from whence it came. 
Its ;desires reach out after the nature of material 
elements, while mind, being composed of an im- 
mortal, unchanging substance, clings to the na- 
ture of its existence, consequently desires no 
change, for it would be impossible for unchang- 
ing elements to seek a condition contrary to the 
nature of the elements which compose its being. 
Thus you see its desires emanate the inborn prin- 
ciples in taind, perpetuation of the same identity, 
while the material body separates away to the 
fountain from whence it came, forming other con- 
ditions of life and matter. 

This is, then, the action of the material con- 
stantly, for the spirit form is constantly attracting 
and expelling material atoms, which help to 
make up the material body. This is the action 
of the spirit body, acting in harmony with the 
material, for this is the desire of the material; 
but the mind which has formed with the action 
of the spiritual body, the product of which 
are the thoughts, the emotions, the passions, 
the reason, which have come through the res- 
piration, the unity of the spiritual entire, ab a 
drop is to the ocean of mind. Therefore, as the 
mind holds the supremacy over the spiritual 
form uniting, from the elements which compose it, 
as I said before, through chemical affinity, this 
makes it subject to the desires of- the voluntary 
power, the mind, which is immortal, which is love 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 75 

of life, and holds it by this connecting link for- 
evermore in a form. This is the reason the spir- 
itual form has a permanent existence through all 
change and waste atoms of the material. It is 
subject to the mind, which is the love and 
perpetuation of its existence. Therefore the 
mind is fettered in the material as long as that 
material is affinitizing to it. When the material 
becomes no longer in affinity with its life princi- 
ple it is subject no more to the power of this life. 
And then this life expels it away from it entirely, 
which is the change called death. 

rVhen the material is harmonizing with the 
spiritual power, held and concentrated in any 
part of the body, and has a non-affinity in a cer- 
tain degree in some other portion of the body, it 
produces pain. For the elements are striving to 
free themselves from each other, or to again 
equalize the unbalanced electrical forces through- 
out the system, thus creating discord and in- 
harmony. Thus it is seen that some indi- 
viduals are having a diseased brain; the ele- 
ments are not harmoniously uniting, being 
interrupted in some parts, or shut off in their 
avenue to the mind. Thus if one element were 
wanting to complete the whole, being interrupted 
by the non-affinity of some avenue to the mind, 
it would not unite in chemical affinity to produce 
thoughts, or perfectness of thoughts, and so un- 
consciousness would be the same as though no 
spiritual element was reaching the mind at all 



76 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

nnti] a healthy action were again restored between 
the spirit and material, or the spiritual had freed 
itself from the material entirely, and thus stood 
alone in its own power, unfettered by the mater- 
ial, an individuality of itself. 

Let a person, for instance, receive an concussion 
of the brain, the original harmony of the spirit- 
ual and material combined is disturbed. There- 
fore the avenue which conveyed elements to the 
mind, (the product of whose results is thoughts, 
or to produce thoughts to the mind,) would be 
disturbed by the non-affinity of the material, and 
the elements which produced thoughts would not be 
carried to the mind so as to unite in perfect har- 
mony,, consequently the mind would be disturbed 
and produce imperfect thoughts or unconsci ousness 
would ensue, until light broke forth again by the 
restoration of these avenues which convey thoughts 
to the mind, or, rather, the elements which unite 
in thoughts when affinitizing in perfect harmony. 
This is the action of the mind when disease 
or a fracture of the skull is destroying the mater- 
ial faster than the action of the spiritual is ex- 
pelling the incumbrance of its waste atoms away. 
Thus fettering and closing the avenue by which 
thoughts are conveyed to the mind, or the spirit- 
ual elements which produce thoughts when con- 
veyed or attracted to the mind from the air we 
breathe, thus uniting to form life or conscious- 
ness, or the comprehensive living element of 
identity. In sleep, mind closes itself like the 



LESSONS OX LIFE. 77 

flower closes when sleep or rest is required, and 
shuts out the surroundings, and will not receive 
elements to unite in thoughts. Mind is the same 
when receiving an injury; to cease consciousness 
it closes in itself its own life, while the spirit 
body continues or keeps up its involuntary forces 
of motion still, as in slumber. Yet mind wastes 
not an atom of itself through all the change and 
waste atoms of the material; though it be years, 
and if restored again in its harmony, the spirit 
with the material, mind will begin exactly where 
it left off, proving it to be an immortal, unchang- 
ing element, for the brain may be an entirely new 
substance through its ceaseless change of waste 
atoms for new, from what it was when conscious- 
ness ceased action with the mind. 

Yet the mind has not wasted an atom; show- 
ing that mind and material are two different 
things; one has wasted entirely for new during 
this period, while the other, or mind, has not 
wasted an atom, not even to the completion of 
an unspoken command or finishing sentence. 

If thoughts are not illustrated from what I have 
given you as being the result of spiritual ele- 
ments from the air coming in contact with mind, 
blending in chemical affinity, whose products 
are thoughts, I will bring farther proof to show you 
how thoughts, passions, emotions, reason and 
consciousness are gathered from the elements com- 
bining in chemical laws with the mind to produce 
it. First, we will go to the tropical clime. There 



78 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

you see life forming into existence. There you 
see that life is inferior in thoughts and mental 
endowments to the life in the temperate regions, 
or near the poles. Why is it so ? Because in 
the tropical climes heat rarities the air near the 
surface of the earth, expanding it until there is so 
little density or oxygen, the life of the air, in it, 
that the inhalation of this air contains but little 
of the essence of purity. Therefore, you see the 
sluggish weak-brained native of those climes pos- 
sessing but little intellectual endowment, capa- 
ble of receiving but few thoughts, as his organi- 
zation is suited to the condition in which he had 
his origin. Then we will go to the native of the 
temperate zone, where life and beauty abound 
in the air — being more dense — therefore is con- 
taining more of the life principle concentrated in 
a smaller compass. You see the inhabitants of 
those localities, capable of higher intellectual ef- 
forts, and their brain organized accordingly, for 
all life is suited to the condition in which it has 
its origin. 

Then we will go to the atmosphere around the 
poles. Here you see the atmosphere by the mo- 
tion of the earth, less in quantity and the native 
there is not so intellectually endowed as in the 
temperate regions, which is the best adapted for 
mind and intellectual efforts than any portion of 
the world. Why is it so ? As I said before, the 
reason is obvious that intellectual endowments, 
thoughts, emotions, and all which makes mind a 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 79 

conscious existence, emanates from the combined 
forces which create all life, making it a perpetual 
identity of itself from immortal unchanging ele- 
ments, which help to compose and make up the 
universe, gradually growing more and more eter 
nal in beauty, perfection and grandeur, as we 
drink in more and more of the divine essence of 
God and his Infinite elements. 

When we come to the mind of Deity, we have 
only to reason from analogy; but if man is an 
epitome of the universe, and those elements which 
compose the universe organized in bodies corres- 
ponding with the universe by the laws of attrac- 
tion, and the result of this unity or organism pro- 
duces thoughts in man, then it is analogous to rea- 
son, the organized whole would create an omnipo- 
tent mind as superior in intelligence to us, as far 
beyond our comprehension, as the elements are 
more abundant that make up the whole, or perfect- 
ly blended together in complete harmony, having 
an equal balance of all elements combined in one 
grand whole. This would create perfectness of 
intelligence, for are not we an unequal balance of 
elements combined, which compose us ? Therefore 
we are imperfectness,for we have more of one, and 
less of another element which produce different at- 
tributes of the mind which compose our life, and as 
we are superior to the smallest insect life that ex- 
ists in our bodies, so G-od is as far away from our 
comprehension of intelligence as the intelligence 



80 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

which we sustain is superior to the smallest ani- 
malcule that exists in us. 

So we reason that as we advance in intelligence 
toward Deity, it will be Deity advancing, too, for 
the elements which compose Deity compose us, 
and these elements from which we have our ori- 
gin are constantly more refining toward a higher 
grade of intelligence. 

So we can never reach Deity or the perfectness 
of His intelligence. When we may have reached 
intelligence as supreme as God to-day, will not 
Omnipotence be through the same law of endless 
progression as far beyond us as His intelligence 
reaches beyond us to-day? Through the ele- 
ments of perfectness which compose our origin 
making us higher beings blending toward a high- 
er life, it is analogous to reason that Deity will, 
for through the progression of all life and atoms 
which compose our origin, we are perfecting to 
a higher grade of human intellect. 

So we reason that God is progression in the 
same proportion as the elements which compose 
His form, are perfecting higher and higher in 
which we exist. 

And we are ever reaching nearer and nearer to 
a more perfect existence as we advance through 
the endless chain of progression, in the elements 
of life which compose our being. 

Mesmerism, or what is termed animal magnet- 
ism, also proves the spirituality of the mind; 
proves that the mind is a spiritual element, for 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 81 

will, which moves the operator to act upon the 
subject, proceeds from the mind. The mind 
is the power acted upon by the subject to receive 
the thoughts and desires of the operator. Will is 
an emanation of the human mind. It acts through 
the body and gives motion to the physical form. 
Let us see if will is not consciousness and indi- 
vidual identity of the person from which flows 
this will to act upon the subject mesmerized. 

Take for instance the subject and operator of 
animal magnetism. Place them for instance at 
the distance across the room, and if the subject 
speaks the thoughts of the operator, certainly the 
operator's thoughts have traversed the intervening 
distance, an individualized substance from the 
operator's mind to the mind of the subject, and 
those thoughts are invisible, and the subject act- 
ing the thoughts and will of the mind of the other, 
is moving his motions accordingly. 

Thoughts then must be a substance, for you 
see the result of their power upon the mind, obey- 
ing their influence. Can you discover this emana- 
tion from the mind of the operator, termed will, 
which has passed this intervening distance from 
the operator to the subject ? No, it is invisible, yet 
it has penetrated the material to reach the mind of 
the subject like any spiritual substance which 
passes through material. How has it reached the 
mind unless it has passed through a material 
substance to come forth from the brain of the 
operator, and enter through the surface to the 



82 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

brain into the mind of the subject mesmerized, 
and acting upon the other person's mind. You see 
it is an invisible substance — the will or thoughts 
you cannot see; it is spiritual; the same sub- 
stance as the mind from which it emanates. Then 
if mind is invisible, is it not like all invisible and 
unchangeable substances or forces, which are not 
material, and yet thoughts or will is conscious- 
ness, a product of the mind, the immortal iden- 
tity of man, which is not decaying. We answer, 
the invisible substances so explained are those 
forces in nature that are unchangeable, not mat- 
ter which is moved by the mind. So you may go 
to the lower order of animal life, and see the 
same forces of will emanating from minds inferior 
endowed, for will is the action of mind in thought; 
whether high or low its attribute pervades all 
forms of life. The serpent, for instance, sends its 
will into the branches above him and desires the 
bird, fluttering into his embrace, and yet this in 
visible cord, which is the thoughts or desires of 
the serpent which has drawn to him his tremu- 
lous prey, is an invisible substance reaching out 
from the mind of the serpent to the branches 
above his head and consummated the same re- 
sult as a material c^rd which you could see would 
have done alike with the same effect. 

Thus thoughts are invisible, yet as real in in- 
dividuality of substance as though you were able 
to behold thoughts with the organ of vision. So 
it is unreasonable to argue that invisible sub- 



LESSONS ON LIFE. 83 

stances are nothing, or that mind is material, for 
unlike material objects it is invisible, also un- 
changeable. For thoughts are thoughts, no matter 
how feebly they may shine through the material 
casement. The mind produces thoughts always 
as the result of its action and nothing else, while 
the action of the physical form is never the same 
substance thrown off each hour of our being; it is 
a different substance of waste atoms of changea- 
ble matter, unlike the same as before, a different 
product of waste atoms of refuse substance in 
every moment of change in the human life. The 
flesh of the young is not the flesh of the old, or of 
one or two years, or of various periods in life, it 
is always change in each period of the human or 
animal form, while the mind is always the same 
identity of substance whose action is the same 
result of substance, thought; from youth to age, 
through all the change and waste atoms of the 
material body during that period. The product 
of mind is always thought, while the product of 
the body is a changeable flesh, never the same 
identity of substance. Then, we argue that mind 
is immortal, invisible, a spiritual identity of 
itself, while the body is never the same, and if 
my position is immovable from known laws and 
sciences governing the human frame, then you 
must accede to me the discovery of immortality 
from immortal principles, embedded within us 
and constituting the human mind. 
Mesmerism proves the result of mind independ- 



84 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

ent of the physical form and its identity of exist- 
ence, and its own powers of action, proves mind 
an invisible spiritual substance, the process of 
whose action emanate thoughts, a like substance 
of the same nature as its being. The eternity of 
the human mind. 



A SERMON. 85 



INVOCATION. 

O! thou infinite and all-wise God, in whom em- 
bodies all life, all perfection, whose unseen work- 
ings move the great machinery of nature, and 
give life and existence to our earthly bodies, un- 
folding in our infantile creation like the blinded, 
creeping worm, unseeing the glories of a higher 
existence. O! most glorious Omnipotence, as we 
seek after Thee in Thy thousand manifestations 
which Thou hast surrounded us, our voice seems 
unutterable to depict Thy glories. Thou bringest 
us the gentle breath of the wind, and we inhale 
therefrom the life element of our existence. We 
gaze upon the moving millions of worlds sweep- 
ing on through the realms of space, peopled with 
intelligence and happiness, as we looking higher 
with a brighter vision to all coming time in beau- 
teous worlds. 

Let us here resolve that we will learn more and 
more of Thee as we look awav into the skies from 



86 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

which the bright angels have come and wafted the 
spirit of little Willie homeward. Unutterable are 
our praises to Thee, ! God, Thou another of all 
life, and our praises are from everlasting to ever- 
lasting. 

Before me lies the little tiny casket of the earth- 
ly form dear to us, in its marble beauty, because 
it once embodied the life of this little one and is a 
miniature of its earthly existence. But while we 
treasure the earthly garment, and cling to it with 
such fond endearment, we know the more beauti- 
ful and eternal form is to go with us throughout 
the endless ages of eternity. Then why do you 
mourn, waiting friends ? Look not to this earth- 
ly garment for consolation and comfort, for all 
that animated it into life, the spiritual body, has 
expelled this earthly form, " the tabernacle where- 
in it dwelt," and this spiritual body has entered 
upon a higher and more beautiful plane of exis- 
tence eternal for evermore, basking in the sunlight 
and joy of eternal grandeur, which is not subject 
to decay. 

In sweetness he lingers near you, wafted in the 
arms of love by those who have gone before him 
to the summer land. 

Lovingly they cherish him, as I see him now 
garbed in the robes of beauty, so like the veil of 
a fleecy cloud, looped away from the tiny arms 
with fadeless flowers, worn by the innocent, the 
good and pure. 

Death to him had no dread or sorrow, for he 



A SERMON. 87 

had not lived long enough upon the earth to im- 
bibe within his bosom the teachings of those who 
have learned to look upon this change from mor- 
tal to immortal with so much fear and dread, and 
uncertainty as a grim messenger. Because they 
could not see that death, as we call it, is only 
opening the flower-encircled door to show us 
those we love, waiting, with outstretched arms of 
love and tenderness, to receive the freed spiritual 
body as nature casts aside the worn-out garment, 
and our feet so noiselessly tread from the veiled 
vestibule as it were, into the glory of the broad 
temple, where a thousand feet resound for ever- 
more, going on higher and higher in eternal gran- 
deur and wisdom, which is as unending and eter- 
nal as God. 

The inspiration of old long ago has spoken it, 
as well as the inspiration of to-day, for Jesus, 
long ago, had said to his followers: " If I go away 
I will send a comforter," and chey are walking be- 
side you now, comforting, striving to instill in 
your minds words of inspiration to those who 
will listen, but time has taught you to heed them 
not, for man lias been your interpreter. 

But those who will receive them, receive that 
personal knowledge of future existence, which 
robs death of its sting and teaches us a foretaste 
of the beauties of life to come. 

What a similarity in the spiritualistic era of 
the present day to the spiritualistic era which 
characterized the days of Judea. Then Rome, 



88 PENCILINGS FROM IMMOTRALITY. 

the seat of national powers, was a free country, 
imbibing the breath of freedom and liberty from 
her developments in arts and sciences, from her 
Ciceros and the voices of those Roman Senators 
which spoke freedom to her happy land. 

Then the light of the angel world dawned down 
to man, arid they spoke with the unseen spirit 
which surrounded them, wrote their inspirations, 
saw as John saw on the isle of Patmos, which 
spirit said to him: "Lo! I am he that was dead 
and yet liveth; fall not down and worship me for 
I am only one of thy brethren." 

To-day, America, like Rome, dawns with the 
same free, national power, whose liberty was 
instituted by Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, whose 
voice echoed forth freedom to man in the senate 
halls and broke the yoke of bondage which fet- 
tered her to one religious power and persecution 
from the hands of tyrants, and made America a 
land of freedom, greater than was ever known be- 
fore on earth. And again, light has dawned 
down to man from the skies, as in the days of 
Roman Liberty, to open the way. The light to 
those who had become Atheists and Infidels, see- 
ing life only go down in nothingness; for the in- 
spiration which had been recorded of old had 
been interpreted by man, and man all along 
down the stream of time to the present, and con- 
sequently had become so much like the mind of 
man who had so long interpreted it, that its 
truths became so blurred by the popular creeds 



A SERMON. 89 

and theories of man, that it would no longer bear 
the test of reason. And since then we have been 
taught that we must not reason upon it; as if a 
truth would not shine more bright by investiga- 
tion and light. 

God, to-day, is the same God as in the ages 
past — unchangeable forever; and in this day of 
national liberty, like the days of Roman Liberty, 
another spiritualistic era has dawned down to 
man to lift him away from doubt and superstition 
and fear to the knowledge of life eternal, of im- 
mortality, which is seen and known and felt to- 
day by millions upon this planet. Wise in sci- 
cence and learning, it bears the test of reason and 
investigation; for listen to the free press of your 
land which brings the reports from men of sci- 
ence convened for investigation. What are their 
reports ? That it is a new truth dawned upon 
man, as well as the personal knowledge of every 
individual searching after the newer truths of the 
age in which he lives ; but it must wade through 
persecution, as it did in the days of Judea, for 
the mind of man loves to cling to the thoughts of 
those who have lived before them. 

To-day we see the second coming of that light 
which Jesus gave to man long ago, and saw it 
would come again, away in the future, "to rob 
death of its sting and its terror and give victory 
over the grave." For those who looked upon 
the dead as asleep in the grave, behold! would be 
living. The dead are awake! The glory of the 

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90 PENCILINQS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

millennium is here; and yet many will not re- 
ceive them, for, like the Jews of old, it comes not 
in the expected glory and power, but in the still, 
small voice of truth. 

Then, waiting, mourning friends, grieve no 
more! for we know we lay not our loved ones be- 
neath the coffin lid; 'tis only the earthly garment. 
The freed spirit, the life, the joy of all we are, has 
entered upon a higher field of humanity. 

Death, is only born again, into the spiritual 
world of life everlasting. As it was written, 
"Born of water and the Spirit." Water, a com- 
parison to the material life. Spirit, the second 
birth of life eternal, into the spiritual existence 
whither your little Willie has now been ushered. 

This is the interpretation which we receive 
from the skies to-day, from those words recorded 
as spoken by the inspiration of the past. 



A MESSAGE. 91 



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My mother, ! my mother, far off in worlds of light. 
I have a home so beauteous, with happy faces bright. 
They come around me singing the songs that angels sing, 
And with them, to my parents, this happy throng I bring. 

They are my guardian angels to learn me of the way 
That I can still go upward to heavens far away, 
Where purity is only seen among the angel throng, 
And if I learn as I have learned, to go will not be long. 

The land is fair and beautiful where heaven is now to me; 
Yet still its joys increase beyond where I can see. 
Then let me go to worlds more bright and mourn not so for me, 
For we will meet in happy lands through all eternity. 

To die is something dreadful to those who live on earth; 

To me 'tis only going into a higher birth. 

Life and Death, how blended, one eternal chain, 

Connects us with all worlds aboee where we shall meet again. 



92 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY 



Si\ Offering. 

The golden bowl is broken, 

Its contents flow most free 

Into the hearts of nations. 

If you will follow me 

You '11 teach a nobler lesson 

Of truth, a flowing vine, 

Which stealeth softly round the heart. 

Till all their thoughts enshrine. 

These sentiments to keep inwrought 

A constant theme uplifting thought. 



INVESTIGATION. 93 



Ii\ve^tigktioi\. 



Look upon the thoughts of others 
Not as something you would blight, 

Always trusting and believing 
You are only in the right. 

For the erring ones of manhood 
That you may be thinking wrong, 

May have come to their conclusions. 
Thinking hard and thinking long. 

Then shall erring man or woman, 

Born in vanity and woe. 
Say no other one's conclusions 

Can be right, but their 's are so? 

If we would be human brothers 
In life's battle, side by side, 

We must give each one's opinion 
Weight with candor, not deride. 

Till we may have gave a hearing 
To the thoughts which others speak. 

Thereby candidly perceiving 

Which is right and which is weak. 



94 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

Who can tell, in life's great battle, 
Which may be the one that 's right? 

For the right and wrong are mingled 
Altogether in the fight. 

All, perhaps, may have a sprinkling, 

Some things right and some things wrong. 

Then, liko candid men and women, 
Give to each what may belong. 



ORBITS OF THE PLANETS. 95 



0i(8l¥g 0$ ^m ¥l&M¥& 

Astronomers have as yet, been unable to dem- 
onstrate this fact to man, notwithstanding its di- 
rect correspondence to natural laws is so plain. 
It seems to be an oversight that is a mystery to 
spiritual intelligences, who have herein imparted 
it, until this mystery has its following solution, 
which cannot be denied, unless you overthrow 
known sciences of astronomical knowledge, but 
trusting that the world may not reject it because 
these facts come from direct spiritual intelligences 
to us to be imparted to man, I proceed to publish 
to the world its spiritual solution, and trust that, 
unlike the days of Gallileo, when astronomical 
thruths were imparted to the unthinking public, 
since so easilj explained, the prejudices of long- 
established customs and beliefs, strove to sup- 
press its light to the world, which has since be- 
come facts to mankind. 

But to the subject at issue. Creation is still 
undeveloped to man, and will be as long as the 
eternal chain of progression advances new 



96 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

thought and reveals new truths to the world. For 
creation is everywhere around you, moving on 
the same to-day without beginning and without 
ending, for all is creation, and the creative prin- 
ciples work in the same harmony to-day around 
you unceasingly as in the ages of the past, when 
Moses' inspiration came to him from the invisi- 
ble. But let us reason on truth, and establish 
truth with science, for this is the only demonstra- 
tion of facts to man. Is not creation everywhere 
around you ? Everything is in life and motion. 
What is space ? Space, as we have previously 
proven, is the great body of unorganized matter, 
filled with organic life, each body or world there- 
in sustaining life and motion peculiar to its own 
individual organization. Each organized body 
seems to sustain a similar motion within itself. 
This motion producing attraction and repulsion 
of the elements composing that body, or bodies 
in space, the substances thus expelled fills the 
immensity of space around that body, and the 
elements thus attracted to that body receives its 
substance directly or indirectly from space in 
which it floats or revolves, which produces ele- 
ments in an inorganic form, to feed bodies there- 
in existing in organized forms. Then space in 
which all bodies revolve must be composed of 
substance, or be made up of a substance, in an 
invisible form, because it embraces an unorgan- 
ized condition so minute in its particles, which 
makes space seem to be made up of nothing, so 



ORBITS OF THE PLANETS. 97 

to speak, because invisible, consequently appre- 
ciated by many as something which is nothing. 
But, as we said before in a previous chapter, if 
space is nothing, where remains the imperceiva- 
ble atoms which compose bodies that are con- 
stantly expelling into their surroundings every 
particle which compose them, attracting new ma- 
terials which entirely changes the physical form 
once in seven years, as anatomy has proven to 
you an existing fact. Then space must compose 
all inorganic life, or the elements that go to com- 
pose all bodies existing in space. Then space is 
a substance, and as it assumes motion around 
the world we inhabit, it is called air; because the 
elements tilling space near worlds is more abund- 
antly equalized with elements in affinity with 
worlds or the elements composing worlds, which 
they exhale by growth, and inhaled by bodies 
thereon more in affinity with their condition of 
life, or the life of bodies upon worlds. This does 
not follow but that space outside of the direct 
limit or surroundings of bodies or worlds is not as 
self-evident a substance in affinity with some other 
condition of life, and as real as the air or space 
which we inhale to produce or feed life. There- 
fore, it is obvious that space is substance of in- 
organic elements, feeding or supplying the or- 
ganic bodies which exist in space, by attraction 
which draws to, and repulsion which throws off. 
Is this element of space in motion or at rest ? 
All is in motion. Then space must be a living 

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98 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

body sustaining motion in which we exist, as the 
ocean gives motion to the elements therein. So 
the motion of space produces the motion of 
bodies or worlds floating in space, in their rotary 
orbits around suns, while their motion upon their 
axis is the motion sustained by the life or its in- 
ner self, or its peculiar form of existence, which 
gives the motion of bodies or space coming with- 
in the surroundings of these bodies, as the moon 
sustains the rotary motion around the world by 
the motion of tlip earth upon its axis, its influ- 
ence or attraction reaching that distance in the 
elements of space in which the moon exists and 
revolves. Therefore the moon revolves around 
the earth by the motion produced in the elements 
of space, through the motion of the earth upon its 
axis. So with suns or solar systems. It moves 
the elements of space within its attraction by its 
own motion upon its axis, thus producing the ro- 
tary motion of worlds in their orbits around suns. 
That their orbits are elliptical is from the fact of 
electrical attraction and repulsion combined with 
the attraction of gravitation of the larger body 
attracting the smaller, whose influence, when 
nearing in distance, attracts it nearer than at its 
extreme, as it is attracted to it by electrical at- 
traction. For illustration, two balls, unequally 
electrified, will attract toward each other the 
smaller toward the larger, and when becoming 
equally electrified will again repel. So with 
planets and worlds, everything is electrified to a 



ORBITS OF THE PLANETS. 99 

certain extent or degree, impregnated with this 
electrical element; suns attract the planets toward 
them through this influence being unequally 
electrified, and when coming near it, imparts its 
superabundance to the other, which then repel 
when becoming equally electrified, which expels 
the planet away in its orbit until, losing this su- 
perabundance, it again attracts toward the sun, 
coming nearer the sun in its orbit towards the 
sun by the attraction of gravitation combined, 
acting with greater force upon it than when at 
a greater distance toward its extreme point of its 
orbit. 

The same influence produces the orbits of all 
worlds elliptical in their course. It is obvious 
that space is revolving around the sun with its re- 
tinue of planets floating therein, from the fact that 
if the planets alone shot through the trackless ei- 
ther with the rapidity with which the elements move 
in their orbits around the sun, its rapid motion 
of so many miles per second would sever a mate- 
rial substance or world into atoms, or expel the at- 
mosphere behind it in its great velocity of speed 
through space. 

But the elements of space all revolving around 
with it, produces no jar in the elements or 
conditions of the world moving with the ele- 
ments of space. And as the worlds revolving 
around the sun gradually decrease in swiftness in 
their orbits as they recede in distance from the 
sun, becoming slower in motion around the sun, 



100 PENGILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

the center of attraction as they recede from the sun 
in their orbits, as the whirlpool attracts the ele- 
ments and ail substance therein around its revolv- 
ing course or center of power, gradually decreas- 
ing in swiftness as it recedes from its center of at- 
traction, illustrates the movement of space around 
suns. Suns are worlds revolving around by their 
own life-given power, which gives them force of 
motion and life, and is felt in all elements sur- 
rounding them and impregnated with their sub- 
stance of life-given power by the motion upon their 
axis. 

That suns have orbits around some other great 
centre of attraction is analogous to reason by the 
elements which sustain ceaseless motion eter- 
nally through the immensity of space, and the 
comprehension of man that can conceive of no 
condition outside of space, for all is space, and 
suns with their solar systems of worlds revolving 
around them, forming the vast mechanism of 
God. 



PLANETS ON THEIR AXIS. 101 



f^JSft^g 0]\f T«5<lf\ SXlg. 

Planets revolve upon their axis by the force 
given them within their interior; by the revolu- 
tion of the fluid within their centre revolving 
around the centre of gravity, which is the centre 
of the planet, the same as all living bodies sus- 
tain their circulatory fluid within the centre by 
the law of attraction and repulsion. 

This ocean of fluid lava in the centre of the 
planet produced by the heat and life of its inte- 
rior revolving around the centre of attraction, 
produces sufficient force in its state of inertia to 
move the whole planet by this same law of mo- 
tion whose surface is but a shell in comparison 
to the extent of its interior revolving fluid mov- 
ing around the centre of gravity within to pro- 
duce its life and heat, while its surface develops 
its growth of life in its different stratas, whose 
corresponding rings are as the trees enrooted 
within it. The heat within planets which pro- 
duce its life, is demonstrated in the revolution of 
its fluid upon the same rule as heat produces in 



102 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

all cases confined or centered portions of heat in 
fluid or air, a revolution is produced around this 
heat of the rooler particles of matter or wind, 
causing a revolution. This heat in the centre of 
planets engendered by its material changes until 
it reached that intensity as to produce liquid of 
melted stone as the cooled lava from the interior 
presents when coming to the surface in avenues 
of volcanoes, demonstrates that the same heat in 
the centre of the planet once engendered and in- 
creased to that intensity as to melt into liquid the 
particles of matter adhering in the centre of 
worlds in their first beginning or commencement 
of that mineral-like property which character- 
ize meteoric substance, falling to this earth from 
the regions of space, where tbey have adhered 
from particles of matter composing space of min- 
eral-like properties or rocky substances having a 
strong affinity in minute particles of matter. 

The life of the planet is fed correspondingly 
with the life which develops itself upon its sur- 
face, which is enrooted within it, as the leaves of 
the trees, for instance, supplies their growth 
through the powers of absorption within the sur- 
face of their leaves. So with planets, their nature 
and life is fed by absorption of its surface toward 
the centre of its vitalizing powers of heat and mo- 
tion the surface drinks'in from the elements and 
sun rays the powers which feed its life, and its 
surface expels also its refuse elements of growth 
and action, assail things on the surface of the 



PLANETS ON THEIR AXIS. 103 

earth's body partake of the nature of the earth 
whereon they exist, because the elements around 
it are impregnated with the elements of its growth. 
The earth absorbs like all living bodies through 
the pores and vessels of its surface reaching down 
into its depth of oily-like substance, its avenues 
of circulation which engender from the heat of its 
centre or vitalizing power. That the centre of 
planets is a moving fluid substance is seen from 
the earthquake's rumbling substance, which often 
begins from one end of the continent moving on- 
ward to another, from Maine to Mexico, with the 
same unobstruction apparently as the elements 
of the ocean sweep through its depth from one 
distance to another. 

Again, if the earth had not a force within it to 
produce this motion upon its axis, it would event- 
ually come to a state of inertia again, for there 
are forces operating upon its surface which would 
produce this effect. The attraction of the moon 
constantly reaching it in her attraction with suf- 
ficient force to move the waters upon the earth's 
surface, would soon bring it to a state of inertia 
again by its constant draft upon it; only as it was 
propelled by this constant power of its own in- 
ternal revolution of its liquid substance, its life- 
giving powers in the centre. 

How is heat engendered within the planet? 
From its law of life. Supposing for instance 
that all was space, or the elements of all matter 
unorganized in space, those laws of attraction 



104 PENCILIKGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

that now move particles of matter to unite, being 
self-existing as matter is self-existing, through 
the ceaseless progression of change-matter, might 
become so rarified or developed to that condition 
that it become in affinity with spirit or attraction 
to unite with it in harmony, thus commencing its 
attraction with matter adhering particles together 
uniting them in bodies the same as seen to-day 
in the elements of space, atoms of imperceivable 
matter uniting in particles more and more until 
they become of sufficient size for the attraction of 
the earth to reach them in the form of meteoric 
stones seen floating in space and attracted to the 
earth when coming wathin range of its attraction. 
But supposing this same law to be acting upon 
particles of matter in ^pace when there were no 
worlds of sufficient magnitude to attract them to 
it, when all was space, through the same force 
that adheres particles of matter to the size of these 
meteoric stones now, they would still continue to 
increase in size if not attracted to larger bodies, 
until they increased in magnitude sufficient to 
engender life, this mass of material substance by 
the change of these elements and the heat engen- 
dered within the centre of this mass of material 
substance until the heat become of that intensity 
confined within to melt the elements in the centre 
of this material body, and through the laws of 
life begin its motion upon its own centre of at- 
traction, the liquid being attracted toward the 
centre of attraction which is the centre of this 



PLANETS ON THEIR AXIS. 105 

body, it would revolve around this centre by the 
laws of attraction and repulsion, thus commenc- 
ing the motion of the whole body in harmony 
with the internal powers of motion, producing its 
motion upon its own centre of gravity, conse- 
quently assuming a more spherical shape, as the 
upheavings produced by the heat within coming 
to the surface in earthquakes and volcanoes, it 
would gradually become moved upon the surface 
by these influences to assume more the form of 
the interior liquid which would by natural laws 
be spherical in its position around the centre of 
gravity. As it assumed motion upon its axis, 
however slow, it would move the elements of space 
around it as far in circumference as its attraction 
reached, thus producing suns and solar systems in 
the boundless immensity of space. 

Thus the action of one life produces change in 
the elements of space different from what that 
condition was previous to the combination of that 
life, for one action of being produces something 
different in the elements from what was existing 
before that life began its motion. So with suns, 
the elements of those bodies coming in affinity 
with unorganized matter then in space produced 
something different in those elements, and the 
unity of bodies or worlds coming into being af- 
terwards would be of changed or different parti- 
cles of matter and species than what had hereto- 
fore combined in bodies, the action of which was 
consuming elements necessary to create its like, 

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106 PENCILING® FROM IMMORTALITY. 

therefore atoms combining thereafter in worlds or 
planets from the elements in which they engen- 
dered life would be of changed materials from 
what was previous to the first formations of life, 
from the effects that the action of those bodies 
produced in the elements of space. Thus one 
form of being would prevent another uniting just 
the same from the effects that all life produces in 
the influences around it, consuming in its being 
and action something which never makes the 
same condition exactly as before; thus life of the 
same species can never be exactly alike, though 
the elements which compose them may be similar 
to each other. 

So planets are different from suns in their ele- 
ments of construction or combination. What pro- 
duces atmosphere ? Motion attracts atmosphere, 
demonstrated hy the simple movement of a fan, or 
any substance moving with velocity through at- 
mosphere seems to attract atmosphere. It seems 
to be the motion of planets upon their axis which 
attracts atmosphere to the planets. Where plan- 
ets have been observed to have a great velocity 
upon their axis, the planet invariably has a 
denser or greater amount of atmosphere. This 
agrees with the discoveries of astronomers, and 
yet they have ever failed to ascertain the cause of 
atmosphere being denser around some planets 
and more rare around others; but this holds true 
according to facts that are thus far ascertained, 
while the moon has an extremely slow motion 



PLANETS ON THEIR AXIS. 107 

upon its axis it has a very slight, if any, atmos- 
phere. So it is with all planets, commencing 
with mercury nearest the sun, and extending to 
the fartherest planet away from the sun. The 
atmosphere gradually increases around the plan- 
ets as they recede from the sun by their swifter 
motion on their axis and slower motion in their 
orbits. 

The moon is a body assuming its present mag- 
nitude on the same principle as the meteoric 
stone forming in the elements in affinity with 
the earth attraction, which has not as yet 
assumed its complete planetary life it re- 
flects the light of the sun rays which falls up- 
on its rocky surface and absorbs the heat with- 
in it, for the earth receives no heat from the sun 
rays reflected from the moon to us. Its polished 
surface of mineral-like substance receives the 
heat, but reflects the light, being composed of 
substance capable of great reflection. The heat 
or the substance which creates heat which it ab 
sorbs is constantly engendering within its center, 
but not of sufficient degree to give it but little 
force of revolution upon its axis, consequently it 
has a very slight, if any, atmosphere, which 
makes it, as yet, almost deficient of moisture up- 
on its surface to engender the growth of vegeta- 
tion upon its surface, whose decay creates sub- 
stance for new growth of higher species of life 
upon it. When it has attained that perfectness 
within it to give it life and motion sufficient in 



108 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

force to attract atmosphere around it of that 
density for the propogation of vegetable and ani- 
mal life upon it, then its planetary position in 
the heavens will have attained a higher growth of 
development. 

When its surface becomes of density of growth 
and moisture to become more compact upon the 
surface, confining the heat more within, then its 
motion will be increased upon its axis by its 
greater heat within the center, consequently this 
motion will attract a denser atmosphere around 
it, which will produce more moisture upon its 
surface, gradually filling its chasms with water, 
forming oceans around it, and animalcule life 
common to moisture begin its growth of develop- 
ment, forming stratas, building up by the coral 
insect reefs from its rocky depths, forming islands 
and continents upon its surface, when its complete 
planetary development will begin, in growth and 
luxuriant vegetation. Thus you see by the moon 
an illustration of a world or planet commencing 
its existence and perfecting its development of 
growth in the beauteous planetary system revolv- 
ing around suns. 

The atmosphere contains elements which pro- 
duce light and heat when coming in affinity or 
uniting together with the elements coming to us 
from the sun. The rays of the sun produces heat 
the same in bodies containing the same elements 
organized within them as the atmosphere con- 
tains in it, the unity of these elements more abun- 



PLANETS ON THEIR AXIS. 109 

dant creates greater heat and light. Thus plan- 
ets with the densest atmosphere condenses more 
heat upon its surface upon the same principle as 
the sun-glass condenses more rays in a smaller 
focus ignites a blaze from the elements contained 
in the rays of the sun. On the same principle 
planets far away from the sun with greater depths 
of atmosphere around them condenses more rays 
in a smaller compass upon the planet's surface, 
which gives heat upon it in proportion to the 
depth of the atmosphere. This fact is illustrated 
upon this planet around the equators. The center of 
the earth's surface being larger at the equator the 
planet's motion upon its axis would give greater 
velocity, consequently attract more atmosphere 
around the equator than any other point of the 
earth's surface. The effect is, a greater amount 
of heat is produced at the equator, combined, 
also, with the direct influence of the sun rays, 
than in the temperate regions or at the poles. 

Thus God, in his perfectness and laws, has 
supplied planets far away from the sun with 
their greater depth of atmosphere around them 
with the same heat and light upon their surface 
as those planets near the sun, as mercury, with 
her slight atmosphere around it, receives no more 
heat through the same law than planets at the 
greater distance with denser atmosphere in the 
solar system. 

How perfect is everything created for its needed 
wants; what perfection in the laws of Deity, 



110 PENCILIXGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

which harmonizes every effect with a just cause. 
Look, for instance, upon this earth, where the 
atmosphere is rare or thin, as upon a high moun- 
tain peak, it is covered with ice and snow in the 
hottest days in summer, while the valleys, where 
the atmosphere is denser, heat and life is budding 
into bloom all vegetation upon its surface. Again, 
at the poles, where the atmosphere is thin around 
the planet, it is forever frozen in ice and gloom, 
demonstrating, beyond a shadow of doubt, the 
cause which produces heat upon the earth's sur- 
face. 

As everything in nature performs its revolu- 
tions in the elements as well as bodies, as the 
mist goes away into space to return again in 
rain, so heat and light pass away from the sun 
into space, far away to the extreme boundaries of 
its attraction, to be fed again by its same sab- 
stance when it becomes deficient in any of its 
elements. As the earth's attraction draws to it 
elements in space as meteoric substances, so the 
sun's attraction reaching out to its extreme boun- 
deries of the solar system, attracts bodies to it as 
comets which seem to feed the sun with elements 
the same as its rays, or what produces rays when 
expelled again from the sun performing its revo- 
lutionary course in the harmony of laws which 
govern everything with corresponding motion. 

Do planets die or change conditions like all 
other material life ? We answer yes. They de- 
velop in growth and perfectness, grow old by 



PLANETS ON THEIR AXIS. Ill 

gradual decay, becoming so ratified that they 
gradually expel the material and become spiritual 
worlds, the abode of spiritual life. Or if they, 
through convulsions of acute disease, throw off 
the material unbalanced with an explosion of 
substance, they terminate, as it is reasonable to 
suppose, the planet once embracing the material 
elements that are now forming the asteroids in 
the regions of space between Mars and Jupiter. 
Some planets are so made up in the elements of 
their organization of explosive substance more 
than others, or what might be termed unequal 
balance of harmonizing elements, which produces 
them not regular or calm in the unity of their 
combined forces which move their being, having 
attracted more elements of one sort or make up 
and less of another; but that all planets termin- 
ate alike is unreasonable to suppose — no more 
than mankind terminates their existence alike. 
Planets, far away from the sun, are supposed to 
be formed of elements more in affinity with calm- 
ness, for the elements are more peaceful and un- 
disturbed than near the sun where commotion 
and unrest marks the elements as well as organ- 
ized life in those regions of turmoil and unbal- 
anced conditions. But that in the explosion of a 
planet it would gradually recede from the sun in 
space is common to the law of attraction, whose 
fragments would not be reached as strong by the 
sun's attraction and they would recede farther 
away into space, forming again in new planets 



112 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

which would have an orbit farther away from the 
sun. Or larger fragments be attracted to the 
moon, which ever holds an attractive force toward 
the planet around which she revolves. And the 
orbit of the spiritual world, bereft of the material 
previously combined within it, would, through 
the same natural law, continue its same course 
of orbit in the heavens, the abode of some phase 
of spiritual existence, having the same grade of 
condition to attract itself to it, filling immensity 
with life and intelligence. Thus worlds Would 
gradually recede from the sun, until their dis- 
tance no longer reached by the sun's attraction, 
they would resume an orbit around some other 
great solar system in those calmer seas of per- 
fectness, where perfect peace and beauty of life is 
perfected in Deity, whose winds are but vibra- 
tions of harmonious music whose atmospheric 
life and calmness brings the wisdom and purity 
untold by mortal comprehension. 

How life has its development upon planets. 
Atmosphere attracts moisture, moisture contains 
life of the animalcule species, seen by microscopic 
views in water, the different stratas of the earth's 
surface are but millions of living insects or ani- 
malcule composing its different stratas as the 
chalky strata, and so forth. So life exists in 
bodies or space and in everything attracted in 
forms, yet often so minute as to compose a sub- 
stance unseen as to its life. Islands to-day are 
built up from ocean depth by the coral whose 



PLANETS ON THEIR AXIS. 113 

reefs are washed in with the sediments of the sea 
until it becomes solid substance, petrified or 
earthy, rising above the ocean upon which wave 
life and vegetation. On the same plan continents 
might have increased in size from islands; and 
to prove this, often in depth of the soil we find 
evidences of ocean species of peculiar shapes, 
making it analogous to reason that continents 
might have arisen above the rocky depth of the 
ocean by the ceaseless workings of insect life, and 
when these continents or islands perfecting in 
verdure in tropical regions whose natural tem- 
perature was in affinity with degrees to engender 
life, higher species, as the Ourang Outang, sprang 
from elements of space and the surroundings, 
abundant of the same form of being, whose sub- 
stance attracting in conditions of egg, like sub- 
stance out of which life had its being, no more 
miraculous than that at a certain temperature 
the contents of an egg will assume the life of a 
chicken or a worm, from what substance is con- 
tained within it. 

For when no animal life existed upon the planet 
of the same species to consume these elements in 
their growth, that which now embraces our own 
species must have been abundant everywhere in 
space and in earth wherever its affinity reached, 
and through the latvs of undeveloped life, which 
seeks development in nature everywhere, the 
unity of these substances which form animal life 
could adhere in unity of substance, one particle 

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114 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

of its matter having a love for another, as for or- 
ganized forms now to perfect life from substance 
from no other law than attraction and repulsion, 
acting upon matter in necessary degrees of tem- 
perature to propogate its existence. 

So, when animal life existed not, to consume 
its like of unorganized matter in the regions of 
space and everywhere, it is as reasonable to sup- 
pose that their existence would unite in affinity 
with growth as for different kinds of grass to 
spring up where there was no seed planted, or 
that from elements of decayed substance to-day 
insect life will propagate its being, developing 
species before unknown in existence, but that its 
elements which compose them was abundant in 
space, waiting for suitable time for development 
is not unreasonable to argue. 

God, in His wonderful mechanism, creates 
nothing without a cause. When wisdom unfolds 
the human intellect to perceive the reason of mo- 
tion and life, then knowledge will have succeeded 
mystery and life work to the higher aim of human 
progression. 

Treating of these facts from spiritual communi- 
cations which I have given in the foregoing chap- 
ter, I will state that many of its truths were im- 
parted through S. Sunderlin's mediumistic powers 
in the year 1868, and others have since then been 
imparted through my own, until I have herein 
arranged them for publication before the reason- 
ing world. And if vou wish to demonstrate the 



PLANETS ON THEIR AXIS. 115 

revolution of planets upon their axis and the 
motion of their orbits, you can do so, simply by 
taking a hollow wooden globe and filling it with 
muriatic acid and suspending a piece of zinc 
in the centre. The muriatic acid has an attrac- 
tion toward the zinc, and the zinc engenders heat 
in the centre when uniting. Then place this 
wooden ball in a vessel of water and it will re- 
volve. The acid attracted to the zinc in the cen- 
tre, and the zinc engendering heat, it will revolve 
around, moving the ball by the same motion and 
the water moving around it, the same as elements 
of space move around planets or suns, giving the 
motion of their orbits, of the moon around the 
earth or the planets' orbits around the sun. 

Now, then, if the world admits that planets re- 
volve upon their axis, they will have to admit 
that it has a force within it which produces it, for 
if the planet was set in motion as astronomers 
say, by the hand of the Almighty, and then it 
had no power to stop, it is not in harmony with 
natural laws, for the attraction of the sun and 
other planets upon it would evidently bring it to 
a state of inertia again, if it had not a force 
within it to produce this revolution. So we argue 
that, upon this basis, science will have to admit 
its truth or give some more reasonable solution 
of the cause which produces the motion of planets 
upon their axis, and the cause that produces 
their revolution through space in their orbits 
around suns. 



116 PENCILING® FROM IMMORTALITY. 



Disease is the unbalanced condition of the 
electrical forces of life, a superabundance of some 
elements in the system and less of others, which 
produce pain, striving for an equalizing of those 
elements which produce a natural condition of 
life or harmony of forces. Thus, many individ- 
uals are able, by the laying on of hands, to im- 
part to a diseased person, from their superabun- 
dance of elements, some element lacking in a dis- 
eased person to equalize their electrical forces in 
harmony with health; while other individuals are 
natural conductors through the combinations of 
natural elements that make up their physical 
form to conduct elements to another person, 
the same as iron will conduct electricity, their 
physical form being used by spirits or invisible 
intelligences to heal diseases through them by 
their physical construction, being able to conduct 
whatever element which they see wanting to a 
human system to restore the equlibrium of ele- 



MAGNETIC HEALING. 117 

ments to produce health, the invisible in nature 
or the elements of space being supplied with the 
life elements of all vegetation, for does not the 
fragrance, which is the invisible of the flower, go 
up into the elements of space and fill immensity 
with the exhalations of its growth, the fragrance 
of all vegetation around us ? So invisible intel- 
ligences, through natural laws, could combine 
these elements. The fragrance and strength of 
certain plants that they could see would restore 
health, or elements that they could see were want- 
ing in the life forces of an individual which pro- 
duced disease. So spirits, through natural con- 
ductors, as is a natural healer, could impart 
by the laying on of hands, elements to restore 
health and cease pain, by nothing more miracu- 
lous than an element which spirits could see want- 
ing in a diseased system, although invisibly im- 
parted through another system to restore an equi- 
librium of elements in harmony with health. The 
fragrance of flowers are their invisible life. 

Doctors procure drugs, minerals and herbs to 
be taken within the stomach to produce this re- 
sult. Their herbs have no effect if the fragrance 
or strength of their leaves has gone. So spirits 
gather or attract, by means of their own construc- 
tion, the fragrance of flowers that has been exhaled 
into space in their growth, for does not the life of 
all growth fill immensity around bodies whose 
growth exist thereon, as nothing is lost ? And 
what does the imprint of the air, congealed in 



118 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

frost, leave upon your window pane but the ele- 
ments of leaves and growth of all life and vege- 
tation which miniatures itself from the air when 
congealed in frost ? So spirits are able to impart 
from the air the elements of vegetation whose 
substance of fragrance exist therein, through 
healers by their conducting powers of elements to 
others, health by the laying on of hands, of what- 
ever remedy is necessary to produce health, while 
learned doctors, unable to see the cause of dis- 
ease, lor this acts on the invisible, the life, have 
to try first one herb or drug to see its effects, and 
perchance ten to one the element they are trying 
is increasing the unbalanced electrical forces of 
the diseased portion of the body or generating 
some other disease in some other locality, which 
all comes by their material vision not being able 
to see the intrinsic workings of life, and just the 
right element necessary to restore an equilibrium 
of life-given forces to produce health. Thus doc- 
tors, or so-called skillful physicians, destroy 
more lives by the drugs with which they fill their 
system, per chance giving too much or too little, 
or not the right kind, till now, to-day, thousands 
fill untimely graves through no other cause than 
ignorance. Look to the animal kingdom; see 
the wild animal or fowl, that never knows dis- 
ease, from the feet that nature has a natural taste 
if consulted as to its wants, of substance lacking 
in the system which it will obtain, or it will grad- 
ually restore itself, if nothing is introduced into 



MAGNETIC HEALING. 119 

the system to increase the unbalanced powers of 
electrical forces, causing pain, working out its 
own equilibrium. But in civilization a remedy 
is always applied at the first approach of pain, 
no matter how blind the giver may be as to the 
cause which produces it. For it cannot be other- 
wise, for the material eyes cannot behold life and 
its intrinsic workings with the material. Thus I 
say that disease will never be eradicated from 
humanity until the laws of life are seen by the 
material eyes, or mankind learn that spirits are 
able to impart more health to man by proper 
conductors or animal magnetism, so-called, for 
by these life forces, a superabundance of which 
can be attracted to a system wanting in just those 
elements attracting it, the forces which equalize 
their own powers and produce health. This is 
one reason why mankind to-day should court 
knowledge from the invisible worlds from which 
our loved ones can come to us or bring physi- 
cians from those climes above to impart more 
health to the world than all the blind doctors in 
the world, whose material senses are unable to 
behold life or see the invisible forces which pro- 
duce its action. Ten die where one is restored to 
health through diplomatic doctors, I care not 
how well learned. It is only finite power, seen 
through blind senses, that can portray diseases 
or prescribe a remedy. But the invisible only 
should have the powers to restore life or health, 
for in them is life, and life is only seen to them 



120 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

in all its movements and combined forces; and 
until mankind can learn this link between the 
spiritual and invisible world, disease will still 
sweep away its thousands, and untimely tomb- 
stones mark the cities of the dead. 

For instance, look at the restless child or 
mother where morphine has been administered 
to ease pain, it only benumbs the nerves, intro- 
ducing an element within them which retards 
their motion and deadens their powers without 
ever removing the cause which produces this over 
activity of nerve power, as in restlessness, cer- 
tainly it would be like throwing fuel upon flames, 
only deaden its present heat to return again 
with increased powers. To give substance into 
the system to weaken their natural force, that 
can as then, only serve at best the extreme force 
which they are called on to maintain in the storm 
of elements raging within to produce this great 
extreme of nerve power to balance its ravages 
upon the system. But when deadening the 
force of the nerves the disease itself increases, the 
nerves the life-giving power are then called upon 
to act with greater counteracting force against 
the disease when called upon to obey the natu- 
ral forces again of the life-giving power of the 
system. Thus no one's nerves are ever restored 
by morphine, but the more they take of it the 
more they require until they become habitual 
partakers of it that life may exist, and so with 
most all minerals and drugs, the more we take 



MAGNETIC HEALING. 121 

of them the more we have to, until thousands 
meet untimely graves merely from the effects of 
medicine upon the system engendering disease, 
when in fact they expect they are suffering from 
some terrible malady unremedied by them. 

When mankind learn the true light and under- 
stand the intrinsic workings of life with matter, 
then mankind will eradicate disease, and with it 
evil will be also blotted out, for are not our off- 
spring partaking of our own imperfections and 
disease impregnating the land with crime, for we 
are the victims of crime when we murder our own 
lives and our children's through ignorance, or 
otherwise we suffer the penalties of broken laws, 
and restoration of health which we can never give 
only as we apply to those unseen that are able 
to view the unseen workings of life forces also, 
see what is wanting to the system in its ingredi- 
ents to produce harmony or balancing powers 
to the intrinsic workings of life in the human 
system. 



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122 PENCILWGS FROM IMMORTALITY, 



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Superstition and ignorance are the twin sisters 
of vice. Together they go hand in hand, filling 
the earth with darknes, retarding the light of 
reason and truth. The advancement of scientific 
truths moves slowly, for superstition and ignor- 
ance, like the darkness which precedes the day, 
envelop the earth with mists which obscure the 
sun rising toward its zenith of glory. Yet super- 
stition and darkness will vanish before truth and 
light, and the earth will radiate with the efful- 
gence dawning upon man when reason emblazons 
in golden purity, unclouded by the errors of 
superstition. So the golden ship of truth, sail- 
ing out upon the sea of life; ahead and 
around beat the waves and slush ice to retard 
its progress from shore; so the great boat of 
Spiritualism and inspiration to man, in all ages 
and times recorded in the past history of man, 
since the first dawn of history began, has been 
retarded by the erroneous conclusions and super- 



PROGRESS, 123 

stitious ideas of man, to retard its progress, per- 
secuting its advancement and wisdom by creeds 
and dogmas enforced by governmental power. 
Such has been the history of the past in all ages 
among all the nations of the world, until the 
shackles were unclosed which bound and fettered 
man beneath the yoke of tyrany by freedom's 
silvery wing outspread to man wafting truth and 
light to earth. 

Go where you will, inco what nation, kindred 
or tongue, they are governed by the wisdom of 
the past, the traditions handed down to them 
from the past, instead of embracing the beauteous 
enfoldment of knowledge which the law of pro- 
gression constantly unfolds to our view, 

Gro back, if you will, with me through the 
channels of history, let us see if my statement is 
correct or not. Take the life of Moses, what were 
his theological hopes based upon 1 The spiritual 
manifestations which individually came to him. 
He had his believers coming from the most reas- 
onable of the age in which he lived. But what 
were the theologies of the masses, the majority 
of the people ? Certainly it was in the forms 
and ceremonial rites which had been handed 
down to them from the ages of antiquity. And 
upon this they based their hopes of futurity, and 
persecuted the spiritual enlightenment which 
characterized the progress of the age in which 
they lived; always going back to the wondrous 
doings of the past around which was thrown a 



124 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

halo of sacredness, uncaring for the greater mani- 
festations surrounding them. 

Striving for the enforcement of powers and 
ideas which was the same power that clustered 
around Moses when but a cradled infant he 
was sent adrift upon the river unprotected, into 
the hands of his enemies. 

Go with me down the vista of time a little 
farther and behold the spiritual endowments 
which characterized the age following, when 
Christ's mediumistic powers, spiritual phenom- 
ena, then burst upon the people. The most reas- 
onable minds of that age embraced the theory of 
enlightenment which had come to them through 
the spiritual manifestations displayed to their 
consideration through him. But where were the 
popular sentiments of the masses of that age ? 
Why, the majority of those, the churches, which 
officiated in the higher and popular currents of life 
went back to the theories of the past for wisdom 
and spiritual teachings, back to Moses' spiritual 
endowments for their hopes of immortality, and 
around the doings and acts of those prophets 
who lived in the days of Moses clustered the 
sacredness of religious foundation and the more 
spiritual enlightment and manifestations of the 
age in which they lived. They discarded with 
persecution and bloodshed Christ and his believ- 
ers, ever going back to the days of the past for 
spiritual light, instead of embracing the present 
phenomena which characterized the doings of 



PROGRESS. 125 

the age in which they lived, persecuting its wis- 
dom, ever throwing the halo of sacredness upon 
the deeds of men who had lived before, them. 

Then follow on, adown the channels of history, 
and persecution has followed every newly 
revealed light from the spirit world, every way 
and means in which the invisible have striven to 
reveal their immortality to man. Swedenborg, 
Wesley, Joan of Arc, Salem Witchcraft, and 
indeed every phase of spiritual endowments, 
inspiration from the unseen world in the various 
forms in which they have striven to reveal the 
light and knowledge to man of their immortal 
existence, until we reach the present age of spir- 
itual enlightenment, and persecution still, with 
invincible power, never ceases her action. 

Where does man stand to-day ? His theolog- 
ical creeds ars still based upon the spiritual man- 
ifestations of the past, upon figures and charac- 
ters which denote a language long ago swept 
from the literature of men — become extinct and 
in its unintelligible characters which represent an 
unknown language — and man hugs to his bosom 
the spiritual phenomena of those dim and dusty 
ages of literature almost extinct by repeated 
translations of uninspired men, varying each in 
a measure according to their own individual 
theory. And on this they wish to base their 
hopes of immortality, unheeding the sacredness 
of spiritual manifestations of their own age of 
enlightenment, for the manifestations which char- 



126 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

acterized the nations which have passed away, 
no matter how debased that nation might have 
been, in morality, in purity, and in social inter- 
course with each other. 

Unheedingly man clings to the reverberations 
which echo from out entombed ages slumbering 
in antiquity. And on this the majority of man- 
kind would to-day wish to base their hopes of 
immortality, and let the shining light which has 
opened to-day from the immortal shores pass by 
unheeded, or if heeded at all, subject it to perse- 
cution. But if we judge the future by the past, 
this age of spiritual endowments, spiritual gifts, 
will far surpass the ages of antiquity, which the 
majority loves to-day, by the voices of the com- 
ing millions, when future ages shall throw a halo 
of sacredness over us, over our doings; when 
mankind shall follow in sacredness the past — 
what its footprints have left behind, in spiritual 
gifts of immortal life. It only wants the reflec- 
tion of antiquity to immortalize the science of 
immortality discovered in the nineteenth century 
of this age. The proof of future life, which is 
identical with man to-day, a tree which is out 
spreading its branches, and its fruit already yield- 
ing an abundant harvest among the nations of 
the world. For persecution cannot still the voice 
of truth; it lives in the ages yet to come. 

Then glory to the coming millions, when hap- 
piness shall rest supernal and death know no 
terror. For the voices of our loved ones passed 



PROGRESS. 127 

away are here with words of love and tenderness, 
the same to hush our mournings, though invisi- 
ble, are heard, and known, and felt, bearing 
bright messages from the home immortal, the 
land of love and light, teaching us of God and 
His infinite wisdom, perfection and grandeur, 
which is seen in all things we behold, the beauty 
and majesty of His ominipotence. All these are 
the gifts of wisdom and love which come to us 
from the spirit world to-day. 

Then will you heed it not, and see God only 
working and dealing as finite man, and only learn 
to love Him through fear of His arm, uplifted in 
anger to smite away his sweet creations which 
are the works of His hand ? 

O, God! why should conception of Thee be so 
low when we see so much of loveliness in Thee, and 
in Thy wisdom displayed in all we behold ? 
But we know that Thy law of progression 
will sweep it away with the mildew of time, and 
man shall comprehend Thee in Thy majesty and 
worship Thee in every element which gives us life, 
from the elements of Thy form in which we live. 

Thus is progression sweeping us onward to a 
higher, holier and more perfect existence, each 
succeeding age bringing new enlightenment and 
truth, unfolding more and more of the principles 
which constitute our existence and perpetuates 
our existence in all time to come. The veiled 
Unknown is seen and felt as we arise higher and 
higher in the scale of development, becoming 



128 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

more spiritualized, opening our vision more and 
more, growing in Godliness thereby, comprehend- 
ing the end and destiny of human life as we grow 
more in perfection of the elements which compose 
our origin. All is progression, from the least 
atom which helps to compose the universe, to the 
greatest mechanism of existence contained 
therein. 



INSPIRATION. 129 



Xr\^pirktioi\. 



Behold the light of heaven has dawned upon the mind, 
For inspiration reaches it from the celestial clime, 
As free and plac idly as the rivers onward flow, 
To far off seas, in grandeur murmuring low. 
And like this same river, towards the waveles shore, 
Its bosom bears the commerce of existence o'er, 
In heaven's smiles of purity and love, 
A star of glory to the way above. 
Thus inspiration flows upon the mind, 
Like sun- set glow, or night winds breath, 
Which lifts the veil and shadow off from death, 
And teaches us the way of wisdom's mighty lore, 
Which, heaven reached, above the earth to soar. 
What blessings down to man can shower its wealth like this? 
Sweet visitants from heaven's eternal bowers of bliss — 
Which leaves its impress like dew drops on the flowers, 
Silently down from heaven, and gives it strength and power. 
Thus heaven showers her blessings down on all we know or see, 
In earth existence calm and peacefully, 
Like softer breathings of seolian strains, 
All, all is music, which in heaven remains, 
Even to the music of the wild winds breath, 
To those who pass so silently away from death, 
To higher glow of heaven's existence there so sweet, 
And then return, in inspiration to repeat 

To us, the waves of sentiment which in their minds doth roll, 
The breathless music, wafted from the soul 
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130 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

Down to us, like dew drops or the showers 

From heaven's higher realms to beautify the flowers. 

Shall man then be so low, in superstition dark, 

To close the portals of his mind to the celestial spark. 

The light which heaven gives to earth below, 

The knowledge which from inspiration e'er doth flow, 

To know the complete fulfillment, the destined end 

Which in God's great majesty we see and comprehend? 



¥l\e ^ouiider of liberty. 

In ancient days of liberty 

I lived and ruled on earth; 
In princely halls of worthiness 

I had a monarch's birth. 

In days of Grecian liberties 

I founded there the laws 
That broke the yoke of bondage 

And governed freedom's cause. 

History has recorded 

The days of Grecian fame, 
When Eoman Senators awoke 

On liberty's fair name. 

The name that's lived through ages, 

And gave to freedom life, 
When ruled through persecution, 

Through bloodshed, sin and strife. 

And this is whv to-day you live 

A free and happy land, 
Across the ocean waters 

A few and single band. 



THE FOUNDER OF LIBERTY. 131 

Had fled from persecution, 

And builded there a fame 
And reared again to heaven 

Sweet liberty's fair name. 

I had implanted in the breast 

Of man the syren voice 
Of liberty that slept, anon, 

To gladden and rejoice 

The heart of man in perfectness 

When tyrants had laid low, 
But manhood's pride had kept it warm, 

And could not overthrow 

The secret yearning of the soul; 

For freedom still would live, 
And I a monarch on the earth 

This boon to man did give, 

Which lived and slept in perfectness, 

In all the hearts of earth, 
Till Young America again 

Gave freedom to its new birth. 



132 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY 



Oi\wkfd. 



There 's a nobler work for woman, 
If she toils with heart and brain, 

For the rights of all that 's human, 
That are given her the same. 

And if up the mount ascending 
Your progress seemeth slow, 

For the many in the valley, 
That are faltering below, 

Press on with buoyant footsteps, 
Still up the rugged steep, 

Unfaltering in thy purpose, 
And steadily onward keep. 

For the light ahead is glerming, 
Which will crown thy labors won, 

Emblazoned with the glory 
Of a life-work nobly done. 

The world it rarely gives to one, 
Its homage and its due praise, 

To those that battle for the right, 
It isHeft for coming days, 



DECAY. 133 



To throw a sacredness around 
The lives of those who have won 

Some better principles for man, 
Where nobler deeds begun. 



Becky. 



I wandered through an old church -yard 

Where, long ago, were laid 
The silent dead, deserted now, 

Beneath its lofty shade. 

There moss had gathered on the stones 
That marked each treasured spot 

Like dust of years o'er buried hopes 
In memory's halls forgot. 

I brushed the moss from a marble slab 
And sought to read the name 

That long ago was chiseled there 
With those decay the same. 

Since, humbled in the narrow tomb, 
The sculptor and the bride — 

This leveler to human strength — 
This end to human pride. 

Ah! such is life. We tread the years 
Adown through thorns and flowers. 

We vanish, and our place is filled 
With other lives than ours. 



134 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

The landscape fair that greeted us, 
The stars that shine through space 

Smiles just as cheerfully on those 
That come to take our place. 

But heaven gives to those that rest 

Their bodies withthe clay 
A life through all unending years 

That never knows decay. 

And as they oft revisit earth 
To mark each resting place 

The last of all, that mortal part, 
Of them that they can trace, 

O ! let it be remembered still, 

By some one here below, 
And sometimes clear away the weeds 

That high above them grow. 



THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBUSG. 135 



¥l\e Battle of (Jetty^tirg. 

On Gettysburg memorial height, where slept in calm repose 
This ancient city of the dead, the morning sun arose; 
And as its rays lit up the sky and cemetery so grand, 
Its monumental residences arose on every hand. 

There laid, in stately grandeur, philosopher and sage, 
And all adown the line of life some relic of each age. 
A fond and cherished mother, a maiden in her bloom, 
Withered in life's fair morning ere it had reached the noon. 

With sunny curls of innocence that decked a darling head, 
A mother's treasure sleeping there, among the silent dead. 
All these bespake the memories, that sacredly were laid 
Within this ancient cemetery, that naugnt but peace invade. 

But hush! the tramping war horse rush on this sacred ground, 
And tramp beneath their feet the graves with battles fierce 

resound. 
Friend and foe contesting, and the battle din of war 
Kesound with its artillery in thundering tones afar. 

The sacred ground beneath their feet echo with shot and sehll, 
Which but an hour ago sweet peace upon their death sleep fell. 
Each contestant fiercer grows, with the dying and the slain 
Piled, one upon another, where graves beneath were lain. 



136 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

And thus the struggle fiercer grows till darkness closes in 
And hushed with awful stillness the roar of battle din, 
Save the groans of dead and dying echoing among the tombs, 
Where broken monuments and slabs lends to its fiercer gloom. 

All breathlessly awaiting till daybreak lends again 
Its light disclosing friend and foe, this battle sea of men, 
Fighting each contestant for human rights they claim. 
But who is judge unbarring the bolts of slav'ry's chain? 

So each one, earnest friend and foe, are fighting for the right, 
Till darkness closes in once more the gloom of awful night; 
But as the war cry sounds afresh from hearts that win the day, 
It seems above their heads in line there stood in bright array 

The spirit of the dead who shout — For freedom onward still, 
For freedom die — 'tis sacred a freedom grave to fill; 
And fiercer grew the battle, till the tramping of the foe 
Are retreating, to the distance, in solemn line they go. 

Toward the southern soil, where the vanquished of that day 

Return, no more contesting in battle's fierce array, 

And earth was strewn with friend and foe, here perished side 

by side, 
That never more return to greet parent, child or bride. 

But from the chains of slavery, whose fetters strongly bind, 
Another link was severed for the freedom of mankind, 
And to-day the graves of thousands, that fell at Gettysburg, 
Echoes in the silent language freedom — immortal word. 



INVISIBLE. 137 



I]MVlgl8l$. 



The}^ come around me in the holy hush of eve- 
ning, when the silent stars look down from 
heaven, as if beckoning to their mystic homes 
mortals from the darkness of earth life. 

Their silken garments rustle like the music of 
whispering winds, which speaks of holy calm- 
ness, where crested waves kiss the shores of some 
far-off, beauteous isle on the river of life, where 
sweet incense pervades the air with richness of 
orange blossoms and fadeless flowers. Then 
they touch my forehead with impressions of 
heaven-born sweetness and perpetual joy, leav- 
ing a holy calmness upon my brow which fadeth 
not, for it leaves its imprint upon the spiritual 
life within, which wasteth not with material 
changes. 

Thus a mother's voice is whispering to me the 
holy presence of recognition. 

Then I long to clasp her to my bosom as in 
days of yore; but 'tis forbidden, for mortal 
senses cannot unveil the spirit form, but only 

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138 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY, 

feel impressions made upon the spiritual life 
within us, which is the spiritual we hold within 
the mortal affinities. 

Thus my sweetest vision is again obscured be- 
hind the thick veil of materiality. And earth 
life with its tumultuous waves break upon the 
shore, submerging in its roar and mists the radi- 
ant light beckoning us on\ard from the far-off 
land. 



I<ifeV Jlygterieji 



The solemn funeral train passed slow with measured tread 

Unto the silent graveyard, where they laid the early dead; 

And many curious eyes gazed on the hearse that bore 

The form which earth would see, Ah, never more ! 

And said this is the end of earth, beyond the dreaded mystery; • 

Which makes the human passions shudder as they see, 

That all alike must pass the dreaded fate, 

And share the funeral rites the same sooner or late. 

Why is it that the grave, the pall, the bier, 

Has in its mournful gloom so much of fear? 

It is because the comprehension seen through tho mortal gaze 

Cannot unfold the spirit life and all its hidden ways; 

Could the invisible which makes the spirit body at its birth 

Be seen by man in all its higher atributes of an existence freed 

from earth, 
Then joy would sit supernal, where now all is mournful gloom, 
Casting its shadow deep and dark around the tomb; 
A mystery no more, than the material birth, 
Which gave our minds existence first upon the earth. 



LIFE'S MYSTERIES. 139 

Can we not see that earth life is the rudimental sphere 

Of an existence like the creeping worm, and then in higher 

life like the butterfly appear; 
And on and upward in a never ceaseless change 
Of an existence higher still through all Eternity's vast range, 
For God's laws now the same must ever be 
Throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity. 
Then why should man not covet more a higher life, 
And long to learn of these bright worlds more free from strife? 
For knowledge which the many spirit minds doth teach, 
Is more in wisdom than the mortal mind can reach. 
Which teaches us a truth, a certainty that minds live on for- 
ever growing more, 
And more in knowledge as they upward soar, 
And having love still yet for earth 
As the infancy of the material birth, 
And long to lead us into ways more bright 
Which would dispel from minds the gloom of night 
If man would learn the science which would teach the way 
That spirit minds can mesmerize their thoughts on ours we may 
All hear the sounds as well which spirit voices teach 
And our own scope of mortal comprehension reach, 
Far out into these worlds of the invisible and know the way 
The spirit wends in happiness when freed from clay. 
Then the most dreaded gloom of earth, the pall and bier, 
Would be disrobed of mystery and all fear, 
For surely man could say in truths and see 
"That death was swallowed up in victory." 



140 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 



BPifJiWS^ wof}i<f>g. 

Spiritual worlds are bodies whose action emit 
spiritual substance. Are suns material worlds ? 
Suns exhale in their action and life an element 
which is always the same. For we can compre- 
hend this to be a fact from the element of the sun- 
light which always, as it reaches us, is sunlight. 
Material bodies exhale in their action a substance 
which is different in every grade or period of 
change of waste atoms by expulsion from their 
physical forms. Suns, unlike material bodies, 
then, expel through their life action an element 
which is unchangeable, for it is always sunlight 
which reaches us from the sun, and nothing dif- 
ferent. If thej&un was a material body like the 
planets, would its light not exhale sunlight at 
one period of its existence and something differ- 
ent the next in its growth of development ? It is 
reasonable, then, that the sun, emitting in its ac- 
tion the same unchangeable element, must be a 
spiritual body or world, which, perhaps, once 
embodied material life, and through change, 
growth and decay has expelled the material 



SPIRITUAL WORLDS. 141 

which it once embodied into the elements of space 
around it, resuming its same existence, shining 
forth on space a material world, which condition 
would change its atoms of space coming in con- 
tact with its rays, and elements uniting in bodies 
around in its attraction, as the moon around the 
earth would be of different substance in the ele 
ments of their combination, as the planets are 
different bodies than suns, and the material 
world once embodied in the material of planets 
would be to us invisible — as much so as spirits 
are invisible — coming into life upon planets in 
harmony with them. Then the attraction of the 
sun would act upon spiritual worlds in their or- 
bits through space, the same as a material planet, 
for it is the invisible element of attraction which 
acts upon like substance embracing worlds, the 
life principle which pervade them, that moves 
their action in the material condition. Therefore 
the spiritual universe around suns must be in 
harmony of laws, as the material universe, em- 
bodying life and intelligence in affinity with 
greater perception and wisdom of thought than 
the material or planetary system which embrace 
all material life. 

Spiritual worlds, the abode of spirit life, have 
in their construction the properties and resem- 
blance of all material life; for is not the material 
life the outgrowth of the spirit, for it is the spir- 
itual which gives all the life and action to the 
by material. A spiritual world can grow or develop 



142 PENCILINGS FROM IMMOR TA LITY. 

expansion as a spiritual mind, can develop by 
learning more and more, increasing in thought, is 
capable of greater reflection and thought. As the 
mind learns more and more it does not annihilate 
or change its spiritual identity, it is the same mind 
capable of greater expansion and increase of 
thought. So could spirit worlds increase in 
growth of elements characteristic of its life and 
identity beyond the material. 

That we can see the Sun and it being a spirit- 
ual orb is from the fact its organization is from 
different substance than planets. Sunlight will 
transmit itself through the lens of the eye and 
other transparent substances as glass &c, and 
reach the mind, therefore comprehended by sight 
}o the mind, while electricity is expelled by glass 
it will not conduct it, therefore the lens of the eye 
being a transparent substance a resemblance of 
glass, will not conduct to the mind spiritual ele- 
ments or take cognizance of spiritual bodies in 
affinity with a different make up of spiritual 
elements that are invisible or in affinity more 
with electrical combinations or unseen elements 
that are similar. These spiritual elements are 
intrinsic in substance to us, and yet as real to the 
senses in some other avenue to the mind as sun- 
light is to the sight. For instance, the fragrance 
of the flower is conscious to the sense but we can- 
not see the fragrance of the flower, it is its invis- 
ible, its life element, for when its life is gone it 
has no fragrance. So we could enumerate spiirt- 



SPIRITUAL WORLDS. 143 

ual elements unceasingly and yet they do not 
reach our senses or mind in the same manner. 
Thoughts are spiritual, we cannot take cogni- 
zance of their spiritual presence only by sound 
upon the ear as they vibrate the material atmos- 
phere, or by feeling their presence mesmerically 
upon the mind. This is from their being more 
refined than spiritual elements pervading mate- 
rial substance and atoms in lower orders of life, 
which go to make up the spiritual form. So 
thought is more refined and sublimated than oth- 
er spiritual substance, which go to compose 
spirit bodies. Mind comes from the far off re- 
gions of space connecting a combined entity of 
life so minute in its analyzation as to be invisi- 
ble to anything but spirit, and its unity of being- 
is only attracted by spirit its substance coming 
to us from the far off regions of space in affinity 
with the spiritual body organized with matter 
and what impregnates matter with just such a 
combined entity of life as the affinity of the ele- 
ments of matter produces in its organization. 
Thus a tree produces its kind again from 
the flower which blooms upon its branches, 
the fragrance of which is the spirit or invisible 
which attracts these combined entities, germs 
organized when secreted in the blossoms of the 
flower but coming to it in elements which seeks 
its combination in affinity with the elements of 
the flower, thus upon the same tree apples are 
produced varying in size and color yet similar in 



144 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

the same specie, so with races of life. Life has 
its reservoir in the regions of space attracting to 
matter by the spiritual elements which pervade 
matter and combine. Thus a mind partakes of 
the combination similar to the spiritual elements, 
more of one element and less of another which 
produce a greater abundance, and consequently 
develop a trait of character larger than other s[in 
comparison to the abundance of such elements 
combined to produce life. The thoughts of a per- 
sons engenders from the elements substance of 
like to feed its growth. If a certain attribute of 
the mind is active a greater quantity of such ele- 
ements attract to the mind to supply or feed its 
over action, thus a life engenders in harmom r 
with the thoughts most active or abundantlnihe 
parents at the period of its unity. Thus a per- 
son may inherit destructiveness in ascendency 
from the unity of just such elements which actuate 
this propensity being in abundance of overbal- 
ancing power at the period of its organization, 
or again benevolence has its predominating trait 
or influence in the organization of the life engen- 
dering its existence, or self-esteem, or the moral 
above the selfish, and so on through all the at- 
tributes of the mind. It should be a theme of 
careful study how life engenders'Jts existence in 
predominating traits of thoughts and characters 
as the thoughts which actuate two minds united 
in the production of one, the positive and nega- 
tive unity or balance of those elements which 



SPIRITUAL WORLDS. 145 

produce mind, organizes a mind in harmony with 
the blending of the two. Yet however extreme a 
mind may be overbalanced by any attribute in 
its organization, cultivation can strengthen the 
weaker attribute by its exertion of activity 
and inaction can weaken those attributes of 
the mind having too extreme power, until 
the traits of character become equally blended 
thus perfecting the human character to its highest 
attainment of development and purity, until its 
brilliancy no longer seeks affinity through the 
material mould which protected it in its expan- 
sion until it was able to soar into a higher and 
nobler birth of the life beyond. That mind has 
its origin from the extreme boundaries of space 
is from its powers of grasping in and compre- 
hending the universe, soaring away in its flights 
of comprehension to the most distant wandering 
stars and computing their travels through the 
the realms of space, marveling at the grandeur 
everywhere displayed therein, of harmony and 
perfection, of that greater mind which moves 
throughout the boundless whole. Alike must be 
the component parts of the mechanism of minds 
to all those distant realms in which the compre- 
hension of mind reaches or there would be no 
substance within mind to attract like substance 
from the boundless realms of the universe in 
which mind has long since commenced to solve, 
and soaring forever higher, still from age to age 
beaming more brilliantly as mind is fed and ex- 

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146 PENGILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

pands. It must consequently gather more power 
and strength to reach farther out and solve the 
newer truths which are constantly reached by 
mind as it is able to digest the food which its' 
own attraction draws to it when capable of recep- 
tion and thus in mind we see eternal ages for it 
to comprehend in something higher, newer still 
as it expands more brilliant, for it is fed from one 
great fountain inexhaustible and boundless 
the universe. 

And as we lay aside the material and enter 
into the spiritual existence, we will gravitate to 
those spiritual worlds which constitute the same 
grade of spirituality of substance, of refinement 
and purity of elements that we possess in our 
spiritual development or combination, it is a law 
of spirit that like attracts like substance. There- 
fore we would be attracted to a spiritual world of 
beauty and harmony of blending of its scenes as 
the elements of our minds harmonize in beauty 
of its development. So we could never advance 
to the higher and purer worlds only as we were 
made up in thoughts and refinements spiritually 
the same or had an ascendancy of elements within 
us which would attract us there. But that the in- 
habitants of those worlds would come to us on 
missions of love if desired by them, would be pos- 
sible for we can descend from any point or posi. 
tion that we can climb, but cannot go above to 
where we are unable to climb. Thought or mind 
harmonizes with the spiritual form, thus physi- 



SPIRITUALS WORLDS. U7 

ognomy is so certain to detect traits of character 
and thoughts from the form of the features, they 
assume shape corresponding with the mind, thus 
both harmonize, and we would go to worlds in 
harmony with our development or refine- 
ment, as certain as the law of gravity 
will attract its like to the earth, or the lode stone 
attract steel. But as we develop through the cul- 
tivation of the mind, through will, giving action 
to the higher moral traits of character we are 
thus increasing their growth assuming a greater 
abundance of those elements in our combination 
which produce these attributes, weakening by in- 
action the coarser attributes of the mind growing 
less in those elements of our being. Thus expand- 
ing us to a different grade of development spirit- 
ually, for we would be organized through culture 
of different spiritual substance, which would draw 
us onward and upward toward higher conditions 
and worlds of more purity and beauty of perpet- 
ual joys where caltnness and peace reigned su- 
preme in its musical harmonies of unending beau- 
ty. If we do not cultivate justice, goodness and 
principle, equity to all, the spiritual within us 
here we will take our similar place in spiritual 
worlds and only ascend higher as the elements 
of our thoughts and being are refined into more 
goodnesss and perfection; therefore when we 
comprehend that it is immortality of life for us 
all that we are to live on through all unending 
time, we might as well commence now to cultivate 



148 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

ourselves spiritually higher for that is the only 
way that we can reach higher joys in worlds 
when we pass on beyond, for like will attract like 
as sure as the apple fall to the earth by the law of 
attraction and we can never ascend higher in 
spiritual worlds than what our inner spiritual 
development assumes in its composition of like 
development. 

Sunlight beautifies the existence of all worlds, 
spiritual and material, enveloping them in sil- 
very light by the beauty of its rays. The spiri- 
tual worlds far aivay in perfectness of calmer 
seas and sublimer wisdom, whose knowledge 
more supreme than us, unfolds more of the beau- 
ty of light in those spiritual scenes and land- 
scapes than our worlds, for wisdom and knowl- 
edge is the key to all power. And what seems to 
us but a silvery ray from the golden orb. of light 
spirits of more supreme wisdom can take from 
this sun ray, conducted through curiously 
wrought prisms or solar spectrum, its beauteous 
anilization, of colors, reflecting them upon scenes 
or rooms which present its ever-varying hues to 
suit its occupant gilding flowers and scenes with 
life-like perfectness whither yon gaze. Domes 
and palaces reflect with different shades of light 
and colors a variety of colored hues from the 
beautiful sunlight through means of reflectors or 
construction of rare and curious stones inlaid in 
artistic views, reaching up from gardens of flow- 
ers in beautiful landscapes dotted around you 



SPIRITUAL WORLDS. 149 

nestling in some rosy bower or gracing some 
sunny lawn or slope at whose margin a beautitul 
river ripples its silvery waters o'er pearly bot- 
toms with musical; harmonies, upon whose limpid 
bosom angelic beings glide in golden barges mer- 
ry with joys and ringing laughter echoing o'er 
the water *like the beauteous harmonies known 
only to the angelic spheres. 

From these worlds of beauty your vision car- 
ries you downward to some other worlds of lesser 
light, and as you wander by its fountains and 
through its parks a kind instructor teaches you 
the symbols of its meanings in different con- 
structions that everywhere meet your gaze, des- 
ignating spiritual conditions in tastes of their 
occupants, &c. Some broad gateway leads you 
up winding driveways around hills, while the 
pebbles beneath your feet are read by their dark- 
ened hues, a symbol of evil and the shining- 
lights and transparent stones meaning the good, 
and intermingled the s:ood and evil is symbolized 
in the landscape around you, birds of golden 
plumage and the raven's wing ilit in the same 
bower, songs of harshness intermingled with 
tones of love echoing through woodland and 
glen. 

A gray-haired monarch pondering o'er some 
lore of life in lessons of wisdom, and the careless 
mirth of youth and childhood mingled in the 
same scene of mirth. But invariably as you look 
into the features of any you see their most secret 



150 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

thoughts and doings, which underlies all decep- 
tion, and their clothing seemed to be correspond- 
ing in hues and texture to their spiritual eleva- 
tion. 

From this condition other worlds present their 
view as you travel onward, and you are conducted 
through your aerial visit to some dark and 
coarser condition or world whose blackened 
landscapes and barren wastes denote a want en- 
tire to us of spiritual joys, some groveling life 
seeking enjoyment, torturing some fettered, snarl- 
ing creature, or serpents twining upon branches, 
whose poisonous touches reveals to you the de- 
ception in the beauty of their bloom, and the 
harsh, discordant sounds which greet your ears, 
the roar and tumult of the elements around you 
thrills your soul with dread as some terrible 
nightmare, shuddering whither you gaze, obnox- 
ious brambles fetter your footsteps, and yearning 
with pity at scenes so fraught with discord, that 
humanity's condition could seek so low a level in 
its loves of enjoyment only relieved as some 
beautiful angel, shining like a star through these 
darkened regions, teaches them of worlds and 
conditions more beautiful, which can be reached 
by the desires of will and cultivation, as an angel 
of goodness might enter the prison cell, touching 
by some timely-spoken word the dim spark of 
goodness in the depth of some wretched life, fan 
ning and kindling it into a vivid light bringing 
them into desires tending upward. So angels of 



SPIRITUAL WORLDS. 151 

mercy fitted as teachers to these lower grades of 
life or those whose divine love within them in 
spires patience, whose comprehension sees from 
the lowest grade of life to the highest, and the 
conditions of thoughts inspiring the mind up- 
ward, awakening within their breasts a love for 
good in ages, perhaps, demonstrating how a 
mind from the lowest condition of development 
continues its growth to the highest by the in- 
crease of mental food developing the growth 
oi the hiaher faculties of the mind and inaction 
of the grosser faculties until they # become 
overbalanced or equalized in harmony, which 
constitutes perfection. 

Then as we would become more perfect here and 
enter into the spirit worlds of purer happiness, 
worlds of beauty and love, let us enter upon the 
cultivation of great internal good and equality to 
all, comprehending that life is not suited to just 
the present condition, but to all eternal ages of 
higher degrees of perpetual joys, which we may 
reach through no dismal archives of darkness 
but through the light of knowledge may we in- 
vestigate these spiritual spheres and the means 
of construction used by its inhabitants, that the 
natural may be made plain. If mankind are liv- 
ing toward the highest end and aim of their own 
individual powers of existence it is perfecting us 
toward that mentality which shines forth through 
the features and gives a glow of purity upon the 
surface which speaks of thought and self existing 



152 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

consciousness of purity within. Thus we rise 
against the storms that beat against the life 
barque, sailing upon its ocean whose waves are 
drifting us all toward the farther shore. The 
knowledge of good and evil which is the result of 
broken laws is only the fruits of ignorance which 
experience or observation can annul. But when 
we have learned by its fruits as the child learns 
to keep away from anything which encroaches 
pain, we have become through knowledge the 
reaper of joys. That you should think because a 
substance was invisible to you, it was forbidden 
for you to investigate^ as ignorant as for you to 
say that you will not take up the microscope to 
see the millions of living life in a drop of water 
that you were unable to see with the natural eyes. 
And because you cannot see spirits, to assume 
that there are none, or if there were you don't 
want to know it, is like shutting your eyes to any 
fact and imagining it were not there, as if this 
could make it any less a fact, because you could 
not see it. There are spirits and spiritual worlds, 
and they have the same adaptation to the ele- 
ments to produce whatever they desire through 
certain means of knowledge as we have in the 
material life to use and construct whatever we 
wish, from elements we have around us for that 
purpose, if we have thought enough to use it or 
invent machinery for that purpose. 

It is reasonable that through natural laws spir- 
itual construction of clothing could be produced 



SPIRITUAL WORLDS. 153 

from the elements with proper wisdom of spirit 
to combine atoms, that unite when taken into the 
system of material life to produce elements for 
our material construction. For spirits could make 
clothing from the unorganized elements of space, 
that go to make substance we use for clothing or- 
ganized in bodies from the food they eat and the 
air they breathe containing the same properties 
that exist in space, in inorganic matter. 

The animal only eats the substance that the 
chemical analysis of its system may take up the 
minute particles of this substance and separate 
those parts, attracting those in affinity with its 
system or peculiar form of substance, of wool 
or whatever it may be, and expelling those prop- 
erties as refuse substance away, which would be 
taken up in some other organized form of life to 
produce silk or some other substance. In like 
manner the worm takes the food into its system 
and attracts from it properties which produce 
silk, and the plant cotton, which attracts to its 
condition of form by chemical anlysis, which 
takes up the right properties to produce just such 
substance and organize it into substance which 
you take and convert into clothing. 

But could not wisdom of thought in spirit- 
ual beings that can see the minute workings 
of life and how properties are attracted into 
substance through the machinery of material 
forms take up these same particles unorganized 
in space and unite them in affinity together in a 

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154 PENCILING® FROM IMMORTALITY. 

substance which would produce the same result, 
as the workings of organized forms attract differ- 
ent substance. It is reasonable to argue that they 
c^uld, and thus obtain substance from the ele- 
ments with which to construct clothing, and as 
all colors are contained in the golden sunlight 
which is a spiritual substance the properties of 
color would in like manner be easily taken there- 
from and the beauteous colors contained in light 
be used by spirits to effect the same result in col- 
ors as though the flowers had secreted the colors 
of the sunlight in their leaves and blossoms, and 
you through your material senses then used 
those colors to produce your material clothing. 
Thus it is easy to see the facilities that spirits 
use in constructing spiritual clothing which is the 
same means used in all spiritual construction 
seen to exist in spiritual worlds, through the 
clairvoyant senses. 

The higher humanity of life, the spiritual, as- 
sume much the same appearance in dress as the 
inhabitants of this world, spirits of coarse and 
gross substance composing them, are not able 
to attract to them the beauteous textures and 
drapery of the finest fabrics, unless they are cor- 
responding within. It is spiritual laws that are 
governing them and like attracts like upon the 
spiritual plan. A spirit of perfectness where the 
spiritual attributes are equally developed, being 
an equal balance of all elements and atributes 
would assume the clothing of white, for this is 



SPIRITUAL WORLDS. 155 

the colors of light equally blended, so a spirit of 
goodness could attract in the colors of light which 
would give them a white apparel if they chose, 
but let some colors be lacking that represented 
some atribute of the mind and it would give the 
apparel of the spirit a corresponding shade, thus 
the purity of spirits are read by spirits in the 
colors of their dress and would be as easily read 
by them as the contents of an open book. So 
there is no deception used in the spirit life, where 
the elements of spiritual substance is only used 
in harmony with spiritual laws which seeks its 
like or equilibrium in a common level by attrac- 
tion and repulsion. 

The radiant grandeur worn by spirits of purity 
sparkle like the finest silvery texture of drapery 
studded with stars of the rarest diamonds shin- 
ing in the fleecy folds of silken garments like 
mist, sprinkled with white flowers and blossoms, 
seeming to have just fallen from the hands of an- 
gels. Then other spirits appear which you might 
expect to see in the radiance of a monarch crown, 
arrayed in apparel having the sombre hues of 
faded light, of faded colors whose rough and 
coarse texture corresponded with the coarsest 
material. Thus variety in the spirit world is as 
numerous as in this, and many happy on this 
plane of life or existence are miserable there, be- 
cause in procuring the wealth of earth they have 
neglected the wealth of the soul, and this is what 
gives to us riches in the life,eternal for the wisdom 



156 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

of the soul we carry beyond while material wealth 
is left on earth, and the wealth of thought is what 
sparkles and shines in immortal spheres. A per- 
son that is tried in overcoming obstacles here on 
earth finds everything easily gained in spirit life, 
where everything stands upon its own true moral 
worth, while those unable to produce anything 
by their own exertions having always an abund- 
ance placed in their hands without the least exer 
tion is deficient in this faculty, therefore finds 
trouble not easily overcome at once when enter- 
ing a condition where each have to build, by their 
own mental exertions, and we rise higher as we 
use thoughts and wisdom to comprehend what 
will bring us into that condition. No one can lift 
us there to stand where deception is unknown, 
so those who have never developed this faculty 
of the mind, depending upon others to bring them 
all their joys, find themselves in trouble which 
must at first be overcome. So each one should 
develop this faculty on earth to meet perpetual 
joys in worlds eternal, climbing onward and up- 
ward through all eternal time. 



LIGHT AND HEAT. 157 



l<iGt6¥ S]\f© S^S¥. 

As it has been stated in the preceding chapter 
that the sun is a spiritual body, I will treat some- 
what lengthy on its construction and present 
proof to substantiate this fact. 

The sun is the heart of the solar system, its 
impregnations pervade its entire circumference of 
attraction as far away in the^regions of space as 
its attraction reaches. Its emanations or rays 
cerrainb r must be of the same substance as the sun 
or body which emits its substance into the sur- 
roundings, into all growth impregnated with its 
substance. How shall we demonstrate the sub- 
stance of the sun's rays. Simply by its results in 
growth which absorbs it. As it is absorbed in 
the earth its effects are remarkable. Not a plant 
or growth that ever came out of the earth but 
what contained it in its growth; this is why the 
earth pro duces its growth of all trees and vegeta- 
tion that exists in abundance upon its surface. The 
effects of its growth by the sun's rays coming in 
contact with the earth, uniting in chemical affin- 



158 PENCILINQS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

ity with the seed deposited in the earth, the effect 
is to produce its growth in everything. You can- 
not find a single growth that ever was produced 
from the soil of the earth but what is filled with 
sun's rays. This is demonstrated by the fact that 
heat and light the same as the rays of the sun, 
are produced or come out of it again by the sud- 
den dematerializing of any or all substance that 
ever grew out of the earth, the same light and 
heat comes from it again which it had absorbed 
in its growth. 

For a piece of timber as it suddenly demateri- 
alzes sends oif the same heat and light that it had 
absorbed within its growth, showing it to be an 
unchanging substance although git had^united in 
affinity with the wood, been absorbed within 
but is invisible, only as the wood dematerializes 
separating its atoms, heat and light is then pro- 
duced from these sun rays coming again in con- 
tact with the atmosphere. 

Thus you see sun rays coming from the sun, 
mingling in the atmosphere have the effect to 
change the material matter or particles by this 
unity within it. The result is shown by its heat 
and light produced upon the surface of the earth. 
But away from the atmosphere the sun rays are 
invisible, explained by balloon ascension. As 
they recede away from the earth out from the 
density of the atmosphere the sun doesjnot pro- 
duce light, but assumes more the appearance of 
an opaque body in the regions of space, showing 



1 LIGHT AND HEAT. 159 

beyond the atmosphere its rays are invisible, the 
same as it presents when absorbed in the piece of 
timber It dematerializes the atmosphere when 
uniting in chemical affinity with it producing a 
different compound which is light and heat, and 
its unity would be different than when united 
with other material matter or # substanee*from the 
various spiritual elements also contained in the 
atmosphere uniting with it, the result of this un- 
ity being light and heat. But it is the same ele- 
ment from the sun when absorbed in the stick of 
timber, and as the stick of timber dematerializes, 
its unity of elements are a different compound 
which is light and heat. The same as thoughts, 
for instance, are produced by the unity of spirit- 
ual elements coming in contact with the mind 
or spiritual, it produces a spiritual com- 
pound which is different by the chemical affinity 
of this unity. 

And yet thought is a spiritual substance and 
mind produces thought always as the result of 
its action, no matter how feeble it ma}^ glimmer 
through the material casement. The action of 
the mind is thought and the action of the body is 
material substance, different at every period of 
change. 

So with sunlight. As the element comes from 
the sun, as it unites in chemical affinity with the 
atmosphere it, produces light and heat upon its 
surface, and this sunlight is taken? up*m the 
growth of all life, and as it acts in connection 



160 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

with the separation of the atoms of matter it pro- 
duces light and heat as the result of thisfunity , 
showing that the element from the sun impreg- 
nates all life and matter with its invisible ele- 
ment. 

Look at that piece of wood. It contains the 
invisible element from the sun. You cannot see 
it but to show that it contains it in its absorption. 
Let the atoms of the wood separate or demate- 
rialize and light and heat is produced by the 
chemical affinity produced to unite in a different 
compound of light and heat. 

Thus you see thejresults show^n in its effects of 
sunlight coming from the sun, and so with all 
material growth and matter in the circumference 
of its rays or influence of its element in all 
growth. 

The element of the sun rays ever produces heat 
and light as it comes in contact and unites with 
the atmosphere. As it unites with other sub- 
stances it produces a different result. Here we 
behold, for instance, a tree filled with a great 
amount of it. Still it is not light and heat. 
Why ? Because the son rays have united with the 
tree, and the result is growth and expansion of 
that tree. Dissolve the atoms of that tree and let 
the sun rays it contains unite again with the at- 
mosphere, you see the same result, light and 
heat. Notwithstanding it may have rested in the 
tree for centuries, it is unchanged. 

Thus it is consistent to argue that light and 



LIGHT AND HEAT. 161 

heat on planets are produced only by the sun 
rays uniting with the electrical and spiritual ele- 
ments of the atmosphere. And artificial heat 
and light are produced in no other way only by 
dematerializing of substance that contains the 
sun rays. It absorbs in the earth by substance 
which attracts it, as oil veins down in its depths 
beneath the earth surface contains a great amount 
of this element from the sun which produces 
light and heat from it when it demateralizes with 
the atmosphere. 

The same with coal and other substance in the 
depth of the earth's surface. It matters not 
whether the sun rays united with coal or oil, 
or vegetation, or timber, or in the fishes of the 
sea, or with the most impreceptible things im- 
aginable, when the separation of its atoms takes 
place and it comes in contact with the elements 
of the atmosphere, heat and light is the un- 
changeable result. 

Then we argue that the great fountain of heat 
and light that the sun is said to contain is but a 
delusion, and heat and light is only produced as 
the elements of the sun rays sent forth in space, 
mingles with the atmosphere around planets. 

It is evident, as I have shown, that the sun rays 
contained in all those substances mentioned 
without heat and light accompanying it when 
contained in their material combination. Yet, as 
as I have stated in a previous chapter, that plan- 
ets, in their undeveloped condition, absorbed that 

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162 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY, 

portion of the sun rays that produced heat, and 
not light, as I stated in relation to the moon re- 
fleeting its light only, and absorbing that por- 
tion of the sun rays that produced heat. 

This portion of the element of the sun rays 
coming to our atmosphere, deprived of heat, the 
unity with the atmosphere thus combined gives 
us the moon light destitute of heat, for there is 
no heat reflected to us from the moon. The moon 
absorbs from the rays of the sun the element of 
heat within its growth, and expels the light ele- 
ment which produces light from its surface. 

Thus separating the elements of the sun rays 
of some of its properties, some bodies and sub- 
stances emit heat, and not light, in their combi- 
nations, as, for instance, mineral, rock or zinc 
will emit heat when dematerializing with acid, 
and not light. 

It is from the combination of substance organ- 
ized in zinc, as other minerals, silver and 
gold, &c, not absorbing from the sun rays 
that which produces light and heat combined, as 
is its natural product from the sun. But that 
neither is an element which is unchangeable in 
its combinations with matter, is evident from the 
fact that it comes forth in its dematerialization of 
substance, the same unchangeable substance, 
whether light or heat, or both combined, as its 
natural whole or oneness. 

The rays of the sun thus divided by the surface 
of the moon, expelling the light and absorbing 



LIGHT AND HEAT. 163 

that portion only that produces heat, the result 
is different than it would be in its natural combi- 
nation. For the moon, owing to its smooth, 
rocky surface, will still continue to expel the ele- 
ment that gives light in the sun rays and absorb 
that which gives heat elements which produce a 
different result than light and heat combined, as 
is the natural rays of the sun, for in such condi- 
tions as it unites with the element in the centre of 
planets, the result of the combination in the in- 
terior of the planet is a liquid heat, while the ef- 
fects of sun rays in its natural or undivided 
condition falling upon the surface of the planet 
produces a different effect, as rocky or hard sub- 
stance. When a planet is matured and having 
soil and atmosphere around it, it absorbs the 
light with the heat and produces a different result 
combined upon its surface. 

This element producing heat in a sun ray at- 
tracted in the centre of the planet, and unites 
with the elements in the centre, separated and 
destitute of this element producing light, is not 
explosive only to that degree, as the light ele- 
ment is combined with it. Earthquakes and ex- 
plosions are produced by avenues or Assures that 
impart light into the interior. It may find its 
way through in one country and carried onward 
find its vent or produce its effects in another. 

In the separating of sun rays or analyzation of 
some of its properties, and expelling others 
that attract in different combinations of matter 



164 PENGILINQS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

is harmonizing with the same law of chemical ac- 
tion, as for instance, m the differnt bodies or 
mechanisms of animal forms. A certain animal 
may eat the blades of grass for its food, its stom- 
ach or body produces a chemical analyzation of 
this blade of grass, separating its particles into 
distinct properties or atoms attracting those 
atoms in the blade of grass that would build up 
the hoofs, hair &c, and expelling those atoms as 
refuse substance that another animal or fowl 
would attract from it to produce feathers, expel- 
ling that which would produce the hair and hoofs 
as attracted to the peculiar chemical construction 
of the body of the former. 

Thus bodies are only different machineries for 
different chemical action or analysis of particles, 
attracting those atoms that are in affinity with 
their own bodies, as the chemist separates the 
different properties of substance. Thus bodies 
are attracting from the food elements 
which go to make something else in some 
other animal life only attracting those atoms 
that are in affinity or elements which produce 
its like or kind, that which is natural to 
its combination of animal life, through the law of 
chemical analysis and affinity of certain particles 
invisibly contained in food, to our natural vision. 

So with sun rays, some substance of matter 
will attract it as a whole in its combinations and 
other substances will separate its chemical prop- 
erties and attract those which are in affinity with 



LIGHT AND HEAT. 165 

it and expel others away as refuse substance, but 
it comes forth again unchanged, the same light or 
heat through all this chemical combination with 
matter, the same substance as when dtrect from 
the sun to us, proves it to be an unchangable 
spiritual substance of the same chemical combi- 
nation as the body which expels it from its sub- 
stance. All things must harmonize. A spiritual 
world must expel spiritual substance, and a ma- 
terial world must expel material substance, for 
all things harmonize in kind with the substance 
from which it emanates. And that light is upon 
all worlds, spiritual or material, is from the spir- 
itual atmosphere around spirit worlds, and spir- 
itual and material atmosphere combined in one, 
around material worlds. But that the sun is a 
spiritual body the great fountain from which all 
light and heat emanates is evident from facts 
illustrated. 



156 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 



C^eatioi\. 



Immensity so vast sublime, 

In the creation of all mind, 

In wandering stars, in suns and worlds, 

Attracted by the law that whirls 

Them into motion through all space 

Without a law which can erase 

The ht rmony which gives through laws 

To each effect, beyond its cause 

In the creation vast, sublime 

Without beginning through all time, 

Unfolding something still more new 

As the unseen we interview 

And wander on increasing light 

Displays creation still more bright. 

For every moment of all time, 

Creation in atoms combine, 

And ever will as long as laws 

Move matter and gives us the cause, 

That life and thought reveals a new 

Creation organized all through 

The vast unborn that's yet to be 

Is a creation new to see. 

The same with all that we behold 

In life and plants that years unfold 

Is new creation yet begun. 

Then could creation have been done 



CREATION. 167 

Within the period we are told 

By the wise prophet of the old. 

For inspiration of to-day 

Says v iwas and is through time alway, 

Tor in all matter through these laws 

Attracting substance is the cause 

That creation cannot e'er begin, 

Because one universal thing. 

Unchanging will effects pro luce, 

To solve creation is no use, 

To say how long or yet 'twill be 

That it combines all atoms free, 

The same as now we see in space 

Small worlds begin which this erase. 

The laws that moved whon worlds begun 

Must be the same which now become 

By its effects with atoms fine 

The meteoric stones combine; 

But in the time when all was space 

There were no worlds to thus erase, 

These bodies small when once begun 

Would larger and larger still become, 

Until a body like a world 

Was formed and ther began to whirl, 

Because the centre of this mass 

Of substance was a changing fast, 

And this did make the heat within 

The center of the world begin, 

And it increasing more and more, 

Began to melt the stone and ore 

Within the center, till you see 

The liquid mass was moving free 

Around the center drawn right there 

By the attraction law so fair, 

And as the liquid round did whirl, 

It moved the whole of the great world, 

And with its motion then all space 

Near it in harmony did trace. 

Around its motion space did whirl 



168 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

Which gives the orbits of the worlds 
The movements of substance within 
All space whose motion did begin 
To move around the world so fine 
In solar systems through all time, 
Which in its growth became a sun 
Througn all eternal time to run, 
And the new worlds did thus combine 
In space from elements entwined, 
Engendering life upon them fair 
Combined from substance earth and air, 
And worlds and laws the same to-day 
Combine in life through time alway 
From substance which must e'er contain 
Unorganized in man the same 
While laws and matter ever tend 
Without beginning, without end. 
Each period that substance combine 
Is creation, then with time; 
So none can say creation formed 
Six thousand years ago 'was born, 
Could be creations period done? 
And we not then our lives begun 
We see creation moving still 
And all immensity doth fill 
With its unceasing action through 
The one same cause that ever grew 
A single blade of grass or twined 
Together substance in a mind, 
Or acted with increasing weight 
Substance on substance to create 
Until a world had formed its life 
In joy and vegetation rife, 
Increasing in its wealth of store, 
Creation on it more and more, 
And so we pause and ever say, 
Creation is the same to-day, 
'Twill ever be, and still more new 
Creation in all time we view. 



THE XEW YEAR. m 



Tlie \e\v Tear. 



A happy new year to each and to all, 

Is our heartiest wish as we give you a call, 

And as the old year left its work nobly done 

We hope the new year so worthy begun 

Will speed her time on and ever keep pace 

With the old year that's left us and finished her race, 

Like the years of the past which have gone to that land 

Where rest upon ages a slumbering band. 

Then let us not waste its time and forget 

That each miss- spent moment brings ever regret, 

As memory ponders the scenes that are past. 

If our work is well done no shadow she casts 

In gloom 'round our pathway but strews it with flowers. 

Then let the new year have no miss-spent hours. 



170 PENCILINQS FROM IMMORTALITY, 



Spiritual dispensations which have been re- 
corded by mankind in all ages bring its enlight- 
enment and truth superior at each succeeding pe- 
riod of time. And yet the same manifestations of 
of its phenomena have a peculiar similarity as re- 
gards its manifestations of gifts. We see this to be 
a fact as far as spiritual phenomena have been 
handed down to us from history. Go back with 
me in the annals of the past, to Christ's dispensa- 
tion, and we see it recorded with the same phe- 
nomena of gifts and manifestations in which the 
followers of Christ afterwards, preaching his doc- 
trine and giving the records of their doings, had 
the same similarity of gifts or spiritual phe- 
nomena. And yet they believed it to come from 
a different source than what these same spiritual 
gifts to-day reveal to us in this spiritual dispen- 
sation. For proof see 1st Corinthians, 12th chap- 
ter, 8th, 9th and 10th verses: 

" For to one is given by the spirit the word of 



SPIRITUAL DISPENSATION. 171 

wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the 
same Spirit ; 

"To another faith by the same Spirit; to an- 
other the gifts of healing by the same Spirit ; 

" To another the working of miracles; to an- 
other prophecy ; to another discerning of spirits ; 
to another divers kinds of tongnes ; to another the 
interpretation of tongues" 

You see in the above quotations the same 
spiritual gifts were manifest then as now. Yet they 
believed it to be God manifesting himself to them 
in these different ways. 

While in this age this spiritual intelligence un- 
folds to us as originating from guadrian spirits 
of our friends, or spiritual intelligence from the 
spirit world whither they go and return to us, 
demonstrating immortality by personal knowl- 
edge and not belief. 

And if we are to " test the spirits" to see of what 
manner they are, and by their works know them, 
through their demonstration or otherwise, we fail 
to see Ominipotent wisdom displayed or depict 
the supreme intelligence in the thoughts then, and 
now, of the inspiration that acts in the wisdom of 
all created life that moves the starry worlds of 
harmony tilling the immensity of space. 

So we argue that inspiration from the invisible 
is made plainer at each advanced period of its 
manifestations, in the advanced spiritualistic 
eras, according to the law of progression, would 
reveal from the same source of invisible intelli 



172 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

ligence more demonstrative facts as it advanced 
to the comprehension of man, and science having 
since unfolded spiritual elements to exist, as at- 
traction, electricity, magnetism, &c, which were 
unknown to mankind then, helps to substantiate 
truth. And that spiritual demonstrations come 
to the masses in different stages or intervening 
periods of time, as has been the inspiration of 
the past down to this, we argue that there must 
be a cause for all effects, and that these spiritual- 
istic radiations must come from the position that 
planets assume to each other in their orbits 
through space, the direct influence or radiation of 
some angelic spheres coming in direct line to im- 
pregnate the atmosphere with elements more 
suited to such conditions of invisible intelligence 
to man, whether these influences are from ma- 
terial worlds to each other, or spiritual worlds in 
their orbits through space, is demonstrable 
only from effects produced. But as there are 
causes for all effects we argue that some spiritual 
worlds in their more direct influence or rays 
would produce more of different spiritual ele- 
ments combined in the atmosphere at one period 
than another, and organizations more aptly en- 
dowed would receive thought and inspiration 
spontaneously from some unknown cause to 
them, And that mankind generally, are in the 
elevation of national principle, peace and 
liberty of conscience at these periods, establishes 
a general, higher spirituality moving humanity 
onward from this cause. 



SPIRITUAL DISPENSATION. 173 

For did not Christ's dispensation come in the 
days of Roman liberty, when the natural tenden- 
cy of the minds of the people was elevation in 
freedom of thought, which, after a time, sub- 
murged into the dark ages again, and moral cor- 
ruption the darkest of tyrrany that ever governed 
the world's history ? 

But as periods advanced in the vibrations of 
time, and enlightenment began its rise again 
from darkness, the cradled child of liberty and 
freedom of thought began to assume a new life, 
till the American shores, flooded with population 
and science, advanced, and liberty, newly born, 
had wafted its wings of peace over the land for 
nearly two- thirds of a century, and again spiritual 
light from the immortal skies flooded the land 
with immortal principles, opening a new spiritual 
dispensation to mankind upon a more scientific 
basis of actual proof of immortality than what 
had heretofore been transmitted to us. The invisi- 
ble knowledge which has established to the peo- 
ple its various religions on earth, each spiritual- 
istic era fitting and moralizing humanity onw^ard, 
until it needs more a higher spirituality of truth 
and knowledge for humanity's farther develop- 
ment, as is Christ's dispensation higher than 
Moses', or Moses' inspiration in advance of 
the traditions that moved humanity in ty- 
ranny and barbarianism to that need of Moses' 
dispensation, and as humanity developed higher 
through Moses' inspiration down to Christ's, his 



174 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

dispensation was needed still to the furtherance 
of spiritual food for the minds that had arisen in 
spirituality to be benefitted by its teachings, and 
so on down from Christ's spiritualistic era to 
this. 

Humanity must have needs of actual spiritual 
food demonstrated beyond belief to convince 
them of immortality. And so each dispensation 
disciplines humanity higher to receive the next, 
and those who are ready and longing for literal 
spiritual food receive that satisfaction from the 
skies that is elevating to their present condition 
or organization. Yet many minds are benefitted 
more by the old to elevate them higher, spir- 
itually, onward and upward to that condition 
that their desires reache out for new revealed 
truth from the skies, and then their spiritual 
condition is fitted for new revelations, as their 
natural longing would not seek or reach out 
toward it, and as God is unchangeable from yes- 
terday to to-day and forever in his laws and 
forces which move the immensity of his form, 
spiritual dispensations will continue to come in 
the?future as in all past ages, when humanity's 
spiritual development reaches out to attract to it 
the food which its development or comprehension 
can solve. 

And did not Christ teach this principle by his 
acts and doings while he lived? If he intended 
us to ignore spiritual instruction, coming to us 
from the skies, as was his mode of receiving 



SPIRITUAL DISPENSATION. 175 

spiritual truths, would he not give this example 
by his acts and wrote his own inspiration down 
on record for us himself, previous to the period 
of thirty years of age, when he began to preach ? 
Instead of ignoring writing anything by simply 
writing once with his fingers in the sand and then 
immediately wiping it out, was not that an exam- 
ple for us to go for inspiration from the unseen 
worlds the same as He, and as He said would be 
a sign of His true followes, for did not Christ say 
as His last words to His apostles " these signs 
should follow those who believe, and those would 
be His be lievers that followed His example ?" 

Those would certainly be His true followers 
that followed His same doings. And were not 
those signs which He specified then, as the 
signs of those that believed, exemplified in those 
who go to the spiritual manifestations of the skies 
to-day for instruction instead of ancient records 
of what has been ? Did He not say that they 
should speak with tongues, lay hands upon the 
sick and they should recover, discerning of spir- 
its, &c ? As a sign in the pathway of truth, 
then let not men bury truth beneath the dust of 
ages, but let its living examples actuate our do- 
ings always, that we may receive that personal 
knowledge of spiritual food that will ever con- 
nect us with the intercourse of angelic teachings 
and administering spirits. 

Then should not all strive for the highest de- 
velopment of this age and use those spiritual 



176 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

powers within them that will give them a knowl- 
edge of immortality, and the dust of the tomb 
be obliterated of its gloom and terror ? All are 
moving rapidly onward toward a spiritual ex- 
istence or life, which must as certainly bear us 
onward through the immutable laws of progress 
toward this spiritual existence as the streams 
flow to the ocean. 

Each drop of water through the microscopic 
view displays its individuality or molecule of 
life. So with the blood in the human system. 
The microscopic view displays globules like 
drops or round balls, following the same law of 
all liquids which appears by the naked vision of 
man a whole or an individual substance. 

So with man; his individuality in the great 
ocean of matter; a part of the whole; a part of 
God as a drop in the ocean. Yet an individuali- 
ty which helps to make up the mass of all created 
life onward eternally, onward as immutable as 
God and unchangeable as the laws which moves 
the universe of worlds and suns, and the whole 
combined in one body. 

Therefore, if man is an individual existence in 
all coming time and ages, should he not begin 
life work now at once toward perfecting the high- 
est aim which we are yet to til], and if we are 
moving rapidly toward this spiritual existence is 
it not necessary for us to learn of these worlds 
and receive messages, if possible, from those who 
have gone on higher in the spiritual existence, 



SPIRITUAL DISPENSATION. 177 

and return to give you teachings of those angelic 
spheres that you may develop spiritually fitting 
you more and more to come up higher toward this 
change of existence ? 

Some are never developing their spiritual pow- 
ers from fear and superstition. Others are afraid 
of losing their popularity. Did Christ lose any 
of these by speaking the great truths revealed to 
him from the angelic spheres ? Should you not 
also rather strive to be the medium through which 
inspiration of spirits gone on beyond may return 
with messages to their earthly friends, no matter 
how feeble or indistinct that mediumistic power 
may be, if some few facts, and that only can be 
given through from the immortal shores of the 
angelic worlds, to give some message back to 
some sorrowing soul resting their blighted hopes 
within the tomb, where they have laid their dear 
ones to moulder and decay to nothingness as far 
as they may feel or know otherwise, while you 
may have knowledge to the contrary of an im- 
mortal existence but too weak in moral courage 
to reveal facts if unpopular ? 

Christ was not popular when he was giving 
these truths to man. He wandered, poor and 
despised by the churches who were popular in 
riches and had costly edifices in which they wor- 
shiped Moses' inspiration, handed down to them 
from the sacredness of the past, the intervening 
years which had elapsed since Moses gave them 
these truths of immortality. Therefore they de- 

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178 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

spised the teachings of Christ because He was 
among the unpopular and poor, taking his dis- 
ciples and followers from fishermen and those 
who would listen to His preachings, not fearing 
the popularity of the churches who worshiped in 
great organizations with domes towering toward 
heaven in grandeur with the rich symphonies of 
music floating down through the long aisles, 
sounding the praises of Moses and his apostles, 
which inspiration was given to them five hundred 
years before. 

So as Christ and His believers wandered about 
through the country preaching to those who 
would give them a hearing, sometimes in houses 
or tents, riding upon mules, showing the people 
by their spiritual demonstrations that they con- 
versed with the spiritual worlds, walking on the 
water, loosed from their chains in prison; or 
again, healing the sick by the laying on of hands, 
turning water into wine, raising Lazarus from a 
sleep or trance, and other manifestations that 
were numerous, doing everything that could be 
done in that undeveloped age to convince 
the churches that they held spiritual inter- 
course with the angelic spheres, who often 
become so disgusted as to stone them in the 
streets and scoff at their pretended spiritual man- 
ifestations, still going among them doing good, 
healing the sick as was Christ and his followers. 
But as their doctrine was increasing so rapid- 
ly, sometimes taking a shining light from the 



SPIRITUAL DISPENSATION. 179 

churches to believe in them that they eventually 
became so desperate against the spiritual mani- 
festations of Christ in that spiritualistic age that 
the rulers and deacons of the churches thought 
they would listen to its increase of power no long- 
er but put them to death, and as they wished to 
impress the people of their lowliness and vaga- 
bondry, they tried and convicted Him by treach- 
ery and nailed Him to a cross among their thieves, 
for they had this as the lowest systein of death, 
which was to be nailed to a cross, a method 
which they used also for their slaves. And those 
who were more popular in that age, if sentenced 
to death could choose their method of death, be 
fed with poison or something which the people 
of caste considered a higher and more popular 
means of being put to death, for they considered 
it wrong to use the the same means for sentence 
of death for themselves that they used for their 
slaves, which was by nailing them to a cross. 

So as to show their disgust for such teachings 
they captured Christ and put him to death in the 
same manner, simply because he was introducing 
spiritual intercourse to man, which they feared 
would overthrow the religion handed down to 
them from Moses, the religion that was then pop- 
ular and sung in the anthems of the churches and 
preached by their holy men, which tliey believed 
was all that was sacred. 

Thus has inspiration to earth had its retarding 
power. Still Christ's spiritual manifestations 



180 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

lived in the hearts and memories of those who 
still believed in him but dared not speak it to the 
world until a period of forty years or so. As 
some of the bible writers state they commenced 
inscribing his doings and truths upon scrolls 
and parchments, each writing out a record of 
what had transpired when Christ was living. 

So persecution cannot still the voice of truth 
and inspiration, yet it can retard its progress and 
blur some of its spiritual truths as it is trans- 
cribed upon record, throwing out what their own 
individual theory may deem wrong instead of 
listening to the truths of spirits when they im- 
part them to see what is right to record and what 
is not right, what has been given through some 
medium of spiritual light by spirits unfit to re- 
cord facts as unreasonable to be demonstrated as 
facts, for this is the only way that we can re- 
ceive truths from the invisible by what they can 
demonstrate as facts to us through known laws, 
thus spirits can only impart truths as fast as we 
can learn them or see the force of their truth, 
waiting for some more convenient time or meth- 
od to impart it. This is why mediums get so 
many varieties of facts and inspirations from the 
invisible worlds. 

There' is no mind that can receive the whole 
truth or impart the whole to earth. They are 
able to be impressed on some things through 
some favorable faculty of the mind which can be 
tuned by them into activity, and other spiritual 



SPIRITUAL DISPENSATION. 181 

truths cannot be imparted through their organi- 
zation. Others perhaps in the same way may 
be the best adapted to this condition or at- 
ribute of mind undemonstrative in others to im- 
part it. So there will always, in all coming time 
be spiritual facts enough to be imparted from the 
spiritual worlds to occupy all time hence, for the 
universe contains as many truths not yet under- 
stood as the universe is boundless in extent and 
its elements fill immensity, and no organization 
is yet born capable of receiving them all or demon 
strating them all to mankind. 

But as we give some facts from the worlds be- 
yond it helps to establish more facts to be re- 
ceived as minds develop in comprehension. Thus 
one science is necessary to be established before 
there can be another given to vindicate its truth, 
still onward revealing new truths to mankind 
constantly. Thus through Andrew Jackson Da- 
vis were given the knowledge of spiritual spheres 
around the earth. What is a sphere, when you 
define its meaning, but a globe or world, and that 
they may move around the earth as the moon 
m^ves on the material plane, may be the case in 
regard to some spiritual^planets, that they occu- 
py the realms of space between the orbits of plan- 
ets moving on in harmony w r ith planets whose 
atoms of material were once embracing their ma- 
terial life or first beginning, as nothing is wasted 
by change. Matter is as old as the first creation, 
of an /organized form, and it is reasonable that 



182 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

many spiritual worlds would be in affinity with 
the planets embracing the elements of their ma- 
terial life, imparting inspiration to mankind 
upon them, the journey from that world to this 
through the same means or laws, that will carry 
them from this world to that. 

Why should man reject the inspirations from 
the skies to day, the same means of manifesta- 
tions which have ever given to the world its great- 
est and best reformers, the only means which 
have given proof of immortality toman, that have 
unfolded unending worlds of life awaiting human 
progress, that have robbed death of its terror, and 
hushed the wails of mourning hearts consigning, 
to the dark, damp tomb and chilling snows of a 
wintry grave the sweet face and sunny curls of a 
mother's love. 

Thus withered leaves and blighted hopes have 
been changed to joy unspeakable as it has been 
revealed to that bereaved one that her loved one 
is living still, and softly it speeds its way down 
from paradise, at twilight holy hush, to press an- 
gelic kisses of love upon that mother's brow, once 
more united with mind to mind and soul to soul. 
With noiseless footsteps they tread the silvery 
pathway from the skies, sweet angel visitants, 
and we, living behind the veil of materiality 
should sometimes feel their presence shining 
through our mind. 

Then how dark must be a soul that would seek 
to fetter mediumistic gifts through fear of losing 



SPIRITUAL DISPENSATION. 183 

their popularity, or keep other lives subject be 
neath their chilling influences, fearing the words 
of inspiration, the unison of heaven to earth, the 
link which binds us hereto paradise. 

O dark is superstition, and ignorant is man- 
kind, when like stumbling blocks they strive to 
fall in the way of others and crush out the spirit 
light of heaven to man, which has given since his- 
tory dawned the revelations to the soul which has 
made life better, purer and wiser. 

Take the life of every reformer in every age, 
they have been led by the inspiration of the skies, 
and revealed to man a nobler standard of indi- 
vidual greatness. Take the life of Moses, David 
and Solomon, theirs was a life of inspiration and 
literary production which revealed to coming 
ages down to Christ a standard for more truthful 
living than what characterized the habits and 
customs of the masses of their age of unciviliza- 
tion and barbarism in which they lived. 

So Christ's inspirations and those of his follow- 
ers taught a higher standard for individual mor- 
ality and equality to all, than what character- 
ized the masses of the age in which they lived, 
and so on down through all the ages to this. 
And our inspired teachers, to day too numerous 
to mention, are all giving to the world examples 
of inspirational gifts and revealing new truths to 
the world which is bringing communion from the 
angelic spheres. And are they any less men and 
women for speaking the thoughts of the spirit 



184 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

world that come to them? I answer, no. Your 
identity is no more interfered with in the devel- 
opment of a proper mediumship, or you are no 
more of a God than you would be to be the bearer 
of an earthly message to a friend. 

Mankind should all strive to develop those 
spiritual gifts naturally endowed them, that the 
shining light of truth from the worlds of the 
angels may glimmer through their lives radiating 
those around them with the self-same influence 
bidding God speed to everything which can un- 
fold to earth the slightest impression or ray of 
truth. 

Comprehend for a moment the vast selfishness 
and ignorance actuating humanity onward. 
Many who seek to demoralize the gifts of others, 
or bring sarcasm upon the powers of those less 
idle than they in the great car of progress bear- 
ing you onward, whose lives must be embittered 
when the starry realms of unending space reveals 
to them an empty void,^a life where jewels might ■ 
otherwise have strewn their pathway with 
thoughts that live forever, whose sunset of exis- 
tence might glimmer back to those left behind on 
earth a radiance reflecting across the sea of life, 
like stars in the glorious sunset ^of day. 

Popularity is but a name, a mere personal ag- 
grandizement of an earthly existence, which at 
longest is but a brief period, compared with the 
personal 1 aggrandizement J or approval of an un- 
ending life. Think of it and comprehend immor- 



SPIRITUAL DISPENSATION. 185 

tality. Will you not meet humanity there — 
your friends? Are there not as many now in the 
spirit world that you would like to hear from 
with words of approval, that walk beside you and 
guard over your lives, as much so as the friends 
around you here. 

But a short period of years ushers you into 
their society for the ages yet to come, and if you 
have spent your life, no matter through igno- 
rance, in trying to prohibit their impression to 
earth as they have striven to warn some loved 
one, dear to them from the treachery and wrong 
of an unseen evil, or guide their troubled foot- 
steps into paths of flowers, or perhaps trying to 
lead their thoughts far away from wild training, 
where bright worlds are filled with happy spirits, 
where trouble never comes to make inroads on 
joys perpetual, sweet with songs of warbling 
birds, flowing streams, shady groves and sunny 
pastures, you will feel that pang of wrong that 
will prohibit you likewise from the assistance of 
those to heip you to impart a ministering care 
to those you have taught in your earth life to 
heed spiritual intercourse as works of evil which 
barrier will be the gulf between you and them, 
whose fruits must be misery to many whose deeds 
otherwise might bring it perpetual joys. 

Then should you not rather educate your spir- 
itual intercourse with the unseen world around 
you, that when you meet the prohibition of a 
great truth which you have followed in line will 

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186 PENCILING® FROM IMMORTALITY. 

not stamp you with ignorance. And if you have 
spent your life in trying to prohibit their impres- 
sions to earth, instead of doing all in your power 
to assist them, how much greater will be your dis- 
approval by the vast humanity which you will 
everywhere meet to welcome or turn from you as 
you enter their portals ? 

Many a poor, despised person of the earth life, 
despised of men, when they enter into the great 
humanity beyond, meet far greater honors by 
those who read the soul beneath its unearthly 
vesture, than earthly kings or riches can bestow, 
because they have devoted their lives to truth 
and for the greatest good to all, and let the waves 
beat against their life bark and drift upon its 
foaming billows, the wealth which is not im- 
bedded within. 

Reflect but a moment. They are, then, living 
in a period of time which is eternal, while those 
who may be working for earthly honors, for the 
aggrandizement of this life only is working for a 
period which soon ends, which a few years only 
counts its period of time, for earthly influences 
which are not genuine from true merit and moral 
worth, stems not the storms of eternal ages. 

The inhabitants of earth that spend its period 
for the popularity alone which earth can give, 
falls far short in time to come. If those who de- 
vote their lives in the unpopular currents for 
truth and new sciences to the world, or those 
whose chilling influences seeks to prohibit truth 



SPIRITUAL DISPENSATION. 187 

for fear some one may rise above them which 
they may already consider beneath their caste or 
popular level, no matter how great a good or 
benefit to the world it may produce, where the 
glance of the soul is the open page has greater dis- 
approval than the greatest to be pittied criminal 
who by his unfortunate organization needs your 
sympathy and a helping hand to develop the in- 
active moral sentiments ruled by the baser organs 
higher developed by natural organization or un- 
fortunate birth. 

While they who are entirely ignorant of this 
life of immortal being is only to suffer for ig- 
norance, in comparatively fewer joys which their 
undeveloped condition has not reached to sur- 
round them with, the jewels of thought of in- 
creased wisdom which is the luxury and embel- 
lishments of the life to come. 

Each living thought is a jewel worn in the 
coronate of heaven. It flashes like the diamond 
on the finger of wealth, and the constructiveness 
which has helped you to be an architect in the 
temple of wisdom and truth rears the palace 
domefe and spires that embellishes the gardens 
of paradise and helps you to occupy celestial 
homes, whose beautiful edifices will yet reach up- 
ward toward immortal skies in the unending 
ages to come. 

Then should you not all strive on earth for the 
assistance of principle, elevating to all mankind 
which are the living thoughts w r hich reaches 



188 PENCILINOS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

through unending eternity; that your advance- 
ment may not be for the earthly alone, but for 
the unending time which is builded upon the 
rocks of the eternal ages, the beautiful hills of 
paradise. 



delejft&L 

I would speak to thee of a fairer land 

Where spirits of heavenly birth 
Journey in glory upon its strand, 

Yet still love to visit the earth. 

To teach us in lessons immortal to view, 

Unknown to us on this e arth sphere, 
Where we first created our blind to the light 

That will yet on our vision appear. 

When our sights will be opened to the fields of the blest, 

Where life is disrobed of the clay, 
The infantile garb, where creation begins 

To shield our first sight from the day. 

The day that 's unending in splendor and light, 

Still more radiant ever to shine, 
Would be too transparent our vision to greet 

In the infantile hours of the mind. 

So blind were we made, this first period here 

Of existence on earth, to the one 
Whose light is immortal, only some times we hear 

From that beauteous world as they come. 



CELESTIAL. 189 

And its light reflects into the soul as the day 

That in the horizon we view 
When morning lights up in the orient sky 

The dawn of the day letting through. 

And the sight thus unfolded in gradual gaze 

Receives its resplendence the more, 
And undazzled our eyes opens up to its light, 

As we step on its beautiful shore. 

Then learn as they come the lessons of light, 

And drink in its beautiful rays, 
As the flowers open up from the night dews that fall 

From heaven, as upward they gaze. 

Refreshing the soul with food for its kind 
. The spirit needs spirit to feed 
Its growth of eternal, from the higher above 
In wisdom, are fruits for its need. 



190 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY, 



doi\tei\tmei\t. 



Ask not for the gifts that bring 
Like to thee on silvery wing 
Which another may have got, 
Be contented with thy lot. 

No one knows what woes betide, 
Other lives that onward glide, 
Though the surface may be fair, 
'Neath its depths may misery there 

Bitter fill its waters free, 
Sparkling through its surface be, 
Be contented with thy lot, 
Each of bitterness has got. 

Some may come in the disguise, 
Which deceives all human eyes, 
Longing for a loving heart, 
Blighted by its chilling dart. 

Which has froze the life within, 
Steeped with falsity and. sin, 
And the gold which glitters there 
In the tint of room so fair, 



CONTENTMENT. 191 

May be mocking thee in woe, 
Filling grief to overflow, 
By the contrast of its sin, 
Of the loveless life within. 

Happiness gives tint and glow, 
Touching all we see or know. 
If the heart is pure and free 
All is beautiful we see, 

And contentment sits supreme 
In the heart a radiant queen. 
Other lives then envy not, 
Be contented with thy lot. 

If you saw with spirit eyes 
T would unfold all this disguise, 
And this cause for trouble here 
Would at once disappear. 



192 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 



Je^lou^y. 



The darkest passion of the soul 

Is jealousy without control. 

It prompts the strongest wrath and hate, 

And most discordant lives create, 

That subject holds its ruling sway, 
Its darkest night obscures 'the day 
That on the mental pathway lies, 
To lift our thoughts toward the skies. 

It drags us down to depths of woe, 
Its galling chains around us throw. 
It binds the soul in its allure, 
And all our nobler traits obscure, 



Till we like some dark fiend appear 
To all around we hold so dear, 
Indulging in this demon hate, 
Which jealousy in us create. 

! banish it with one strong will, 
And swear its sway no more shall fill 
The sacred gardens of the soul 
As serpents in its flowers enfold, | 



JEALOUSY, 193 

To sting its fangs of poison there, 
The choicest flowers and fruits most rare, 
Which in the sunlight of the soul 
Would ripen up with wealth untold. 

The baser attributes of mind 
Should not enslave the soul and bind 
Within its ruling darkness there 
As clouds obscure the sunlight fair. 

Or billows break upon the shore 
In wildest storms tempestuous roar 
That qhills the heart that onward gaze 
To see lives wrecked upon its waves. 

Think of the great immortal view 
Of life in endless chain review 
And then reflect if it shall be 
Spent always to bind those to thee. 

That would not by attraction cling 
To thee its souls best offering, 
O rather spurn a soul like this 
That gives to thee the Judas kiss. 

In nobler traits of soul to find 

A truer harmonizing mind 

That through the storms when billows wake 

Will closer cling o'er swell and break, 

And never give to jealous mind 
All that its bitterness entwine 
For this will darken mind l nd soul 
That gives a life to its control. 



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(Jold. 



Gold may rivet human chains, 
Bind the soul and fetter brains- 
In the worst of tyranny 
Which a life can know or see. 

Luring with its magic smile 
Seeming beauty all the while r 
With the glitter of its gold 
'Till thy senses it enfold. 

Gold is but a paltry thing, 
All thy goodness riveting, 
If the heart seeks nothing more 
But to pile it up in score. 

For a life of sure decay 
Will yet sweep it all away 
Drifting thee upon the shore 
Of eternal life no more. 



Gilded with its treasures then 
Than the poorest lives of men 
What has made the growth of mind 
W ith its gems of thoughts entwined 



CONSISTENCY. 195 

Is the wealth you carry o'er 
With you to that other shore, 
Where eternal life alway 
Stores wealth which cannot decay. 



Coi^i^tei]dy., 



Consistency a jewel bright, 
Stamps the brow with glorious light 
It speaks from reason's lofty throne 
Calm and thoughtful is its own. 

Luster to the features fair, 
Xike a monarch sitting there 
With a calm and lofty mien 
Placid as a summer dream. 

Calm it rideth o'er the sea 
Though life's storms are raging free 
Bound it billows break and roar 
Still consistent as before. 

Eeason sits undaunted still 
Though excitement greatest fill 
Minds of many, pause and wait 
Will consistent thoughts create. 

Great accomplishments are won 
If too hastily not done, 
Time to act the best, will be 
.Reasoned with consistency. 



196 PENCILINGS FROM IMMOBTALITY, 

Then forever pause and wait, 
Let impulses not create 
Deeds and words you may regret 
If consistency forget. 



Justice. 



Be just to all, 'tis heaven's boon to man, 

Giving unto other lives what justice may demand. 

In equal rights to all, say not whom shall tell — 

The deed for other lives to act 'tis well, 

For each to act with justice and if so 

Each life must have its own criterion rights to know. 

'Tis not for you to say what justice claims 

For others, but draw thine own scale of justice with a rein 

That makes thee just, then all the world will be 

Just in acts and deeds the same as thee. 

"What others think is just, it matters not to thine 

Own life of truth and right which will immortal shine 

And this is heaven's dawning light to earth, 

Be just to all will lead you to its glorious birth 

Of immortal grandeur through all unending years 

Of thine own acts and deeds should be thy only fears 

To mete out justice ways for other walks than yours is 

not the goal 
That will elevate thine own immortal soul 
But to thine own just acts and doings fair 
Is all that God has placed within thy care. 
One life, our own, is all we have in right 
To say or fashion for this heavenly light, 
And if we each the same look to our own 
Is just; in God's own care are others thrown, 
And each one seeking for this heavenlv light, 
Is reaching it the best for their own right 

In life's great battle reaching to the sea 

Which ends for all in immortality. 



SUPREME INTELLIGENCE. 197 



We see a supreme intelligence, a supreme wis- 
dom, manifest in the construction of everything 
created through the law of attraction moving in 
matter and substance that unites and constructs 
everything, the powers of motion pervading all 
space and filling all immensity, as the will of the 
human system thrills every atom or particle of 
flesh in our bodies and gives us the sense of feel- 
ing and motion. 

Sup erne wisdom is manifest throughout the 
whole in every atom of construction. Look at 
the flowers whose perfection in shape and petals 
cannot be perfected by the wisdom of art only as 
you take an exact copy from it. So with a blade 
of grass, or an ocean shell with corresponding 
rings and shades, speaking of an exquisite intel- 
ligence in its construction. 

So with the snow flakes piled up in the drifts, 
representing the clouds in the sky, attracting and 
drifting together in different form of construc- 
tion. And again, look at the smallest animal 



198 PENCILING® FROM IMMORTALITY. 

life ; observe its minute symmetry and construction 
giving evidence of a wisdom in the laws of its 
unity, and so on up to the higher order of life in 
the construction of the human form and the 
adaptation of every fibre and muscle, its pliabil- 
ity of construction in bone and sinew, harmoniz- 
ing with the adaptation of motion for which it 
was used, one uniting with the other in harmony 
with intelligence in its construction, the layers of 
muscle and nerve assuming the shape of the 
blades of grass or branches of trees. 

Then examine the human hand. It reveals as 
much evidence of intelligence in its construction 
and adaptation for its use as a machinery con- 
structed by human wisdom will manifest the in- 
telligence of the inventor in the movement of the 
wheels whose results perfect the design for which 
it was made. 

Therefore, as it is evident that wisdom is man- 
ifest in the least atom of construction in every- 
thing that is combined in unity by the laws of 
attraction in the universe, demonstrates the Crea- 
tor to be wisdom, and is as evident that supreme 
mind exists as a whole in everything embodied 
with motion through the laws of attraction or in- 
voluntary force which adapts everything to its 
peculiar make of construction. 

Then as we exist in this intelligence around us 
and motion of all life in us, and everything sus- 
taining its ceaseless motion, is it not evident at 



SUPREME INTELLIGENCE. 199 

least that we live in the Creator ? Let us call it 
God, nature, he, she, or it. 

One thing is evident, no matter by what name 
we designate it, that we exist in an ominipotent 
intelligence, which can be possible only as we 
exist in a body or vast whole whose motion and 
intelligence pervades it similarly as our will 
pervades every particle of our form to give ii 
motion, voluntary or involuntary will, it has the 
whole body as its control as our form is governed 
by will, and as life exists in us as the ani- 
malcule life, pervading every drop of blood or 
muscle in our bodies, their movements are in har- 
mony with our involuntary will, which gives mo- 
tion to our flesh in the most minute vessels of ab- 
sorption and secretions which give animation and 
power to the human system, and if these minute 
entities of life, seen only by microscopic views 
existing in our bodies, has a motion of their own 
life, it must, as a whole, be governed by the hu- 
man will pervading it, which involuntary motion 
moves the flow of liquid to and from the heart 
or the movements of absorption and secretions 
m harmony with the whole entire form in which 
they exist. 

So are we subject to the intelligence moving 
elements outside of us. 

You cannot go up in space as your thoughts 
desire, for another power of motion attracts you 
by the law of gravity which unites with sub- 
stance to hold you to the earth, and so you are 



200 PENCILINGS FROM IMMORTALITY. 

governed by higher powers of motion. Yet you 
can think and act in the higher power of su- 
preme motion which moves matter and constructs 
forms and life ceaselessly, intelligence which 
creates and unites substance which thinks and 
acts after this unity has taken place in harmony 
with this higher motion of life, which electrifies 
everything with motion, developing blossom and 
leaf onward in one entire chaia of life. 

Thus we argue that we live in the Creator, 
which is everywhere present, the elements of 
whose form is boundless. 

And as the elements form all created life, seen 
and unseen, a manifest intelligence of workman- 
ship is seen in the laws that unite substance or 
the fountain from which flows these laws, work- 
ing through matter and s^ bstance and unites in 
growth of all outward development, revealing 
supreme intelligence. 

Thus any new revealed law or discovery of 
science which discloses the unknown in nature. 
manifesting to us a superiority of our compre- 
hension of power, seems incredible or unaccount- 
able to us in its underlying principles, as the 
works of the inventor which first constructs de- 
velopments like the microscope which unfolds to 
you the contents of a drop of water invisible to 
the human vision, or the extended lens of the 
telescope revealing the starry worlds inhabiced 
with life a d intelligence the same as this in the 
far off realms of infinite space. 



SUPREME INTELLIGENCE. 201 

Man is but an organized atom of this supreme 
fountain of intelligence, as a drop of water makes 
up the substance of the ocean, or the blood in the 
human system reveals in microscopic view round 
balls or drops, which to the view of man's natural 
comprehension is a red liquid substance instead 
of a whole, individualized with atoms of worlds 
or roun q balls which compose its minute analy- 
zation of life. 

Thus the outgrowth of the whole entire uni- 
verse is made up of individualities composing it 
as a whole in the individuality of God, when ana- 
lyzed in its particles reveals all created life con- 
tained in minute individualities, embracing the 
whole entire subject to motion and life in the laws 
that move throughout the whole attracting and 
moving matter and worlds in harmony with the 
whole. And as this outside influence displays 
its manifest power in all life and development, 
so marvelous to our first gaze or comprehension 
at first view of any thing never before seen by us, 
we are awed at the wisdom and intelligence of its 
construction, which after becoming common or 
habituated to its observation seems to be unno- 
ticed as a common result to mankind. 

Comprehend for a moment what wonderful 
power the universe would present to you, if it 
were unfolded to your comprehension at one un- 
known gaze of mental perception. The golden 
sunlight would reveal its wonderful variety of 
hues, the plants and trees would be marvelous in 



202 PENCILING S FROM IMMORTALITY. 

their powers of intrinsic growth developing fruit 
and bloom, the unity of matter revealing thought 
and independent action with the ever varying 
minds produced, of which nothing reveals the 
same individuality of thought, the hills and val- 
leys teeming with life and intelligence feeding 
upon its verdure, the starry worlds revolving in 
harmony around suns, the vibrations of the 
winds wafting from all regions its elements of 
life, all would be marvelous to our comprehen- 
sion of grandeur and beauty, if before unrevealed 
of the invisible creator of all we behold. And yet 
so common is it to our natural gaze many look 
upon life with little interest comprehending not 
the great macMnery of its motions which under- 
lies all power in and around us. 

But let even a minute flower, before unseen by 
them, or a rare stone or shell unearthed from the 
tomb of unknown antiquity, or some species of 
eyeless fish before unseen revealed from some 
rocky cave, or unclimbed mountain peak whose 
stellate rocks overhanging with verdure before 
undiscovered, and man will marvel at the 
underlying power of its construction and 
perfectness visible in all created individualities 
composing the universe which, as a whole will be 
a study for all time as intellectual perception 
quickens in its power and our vision is extended 
to comprehend the underlying principles of ail 
life in the Supreme intelligence which is God. 



